Power For God Or For Power? As a Christian conservative, I can tell you those working as activists in the Religious Right believe strongly in what they do...that they are serving God. They correctly see terrible things in our society and feel, if the laws were just changed to reflect Biblical principles, everything would be better. But, in the pursuit of worldly political power, we risk missing a far greater goal. It isn't that our motives and goals are wrong, just that the political system in any given country is the wrong way to achieve those goals. We fight on a different battleground!
Christians And Political Participation: As Christians in a democracy, it's our duty to Jesus and to our country to participate in the political system, trying to influence it for the good...this really isn't the question. We should do our best to make sure whoever and whatever we vote for matches up with the principles we see in God's Word. The problem is, as this election season bears out...no one matches up! We get as close as we can but, in doing so, we begin to compromise our own values. That's politics, you say? How, then, do you think we can politically achieve our goals as Christians? ...that is, if we even agree on those goals! We conservatives support the Republican Party only to empower corruption and moral decay...the very things we were voting against. But there are liberal Christians, just as committed to Christ, supporting Democrats and getting the same or worse results. Vote, yes, but don't expect things to dramatically change even if your champion gets the job. As hot as the issues are...
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