Sidebar: Presidential Prayer -- How should we then pray?

| The Editors

When an evangelical encourages another evangelical to "pray for President Clinton," he usually does so after the other expresses some criticism of the president. The unspoken assumption is that there are only two legitimate courses of conduct and that they are mutually exclusive: supplication or reproof. In fact, the two are complementary. Yes, the Bible demands that we pray for our leaders as well as for other men.

But how do we pray?

In the case of this president, we have the word of church leaders who have met with him that Mr. Clinton is a conflicted believer in Christ. As Tony Campolo puts it, Mr. Clinton is "a man struggling to figure out, do I play the game according to the Democratic Party or do I live out my commitments to the kingdom [of God]?"

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