Christian, What's Your Role in Life?

We pastors tend to get long-winded on this, and I hope to be short-winded today (against my grain).

The debate about a Christian's role in a political government rages on, and I've discovered as a pastor, that the debate is strong in my church - meaning believers hold varying views. I am surprised at this in a way, and then in a way not. It should be clear to everyone who holds a Biblical world view; it should be clear to everyone who has a handle on American History (the real history, not the re-written history our liberal heathenistic "Americans" want us to believe is history (see Article that is trying to claim Abe Lincoln was homosexual, CNS news)); and it should be clear to everyone who claims that we all must give account to God - for God blesses and curses nations who bless or curse Him. Our role as Christians should be clear - we are as entitled to voice in the nation's government as anyone, and we are entitled to urge our political leaders to make policies that honor our God.

No policy can truly be a policy if it is not somehow exclusionary. No law is a law if it is not somehow exclusionary. A person caught speeding has been excluded from those not speeding. A murderer is excluded from society for his deed. Some deeds should be considered illegal which non-Bible believing political leaders are trying to make legal. Our God says such laws should be enacted on many grounds, religion being only one of them. Christians owe it to their God, to their country, to their communities, to their neighbors, to their families, and to their churches to stand up and speak up. We need judges who will honor God with their decisions, not honor the godless. We need representation on Capitol Hill who will honor God with their laws, not honor the godless. We need a President and his cabinet who will honor God with his administration, not honor the godless. We were once a God-fearing country because we put God-fearing men in leadership. We can return to being a God-fearing country by doing the same: Putting God-fearing men in leadership.

The Bible says that only the saved can know the mind of God. If we want our country to reflect the mind of God, then our courts must have judges with the mind of God (through faith in Christ Jesus); our Legislature must have representatives with the mind of God; our President must have the mind of God.

Pushing God out of Government is not the intent of our Constitution, our founding fathers, nor of the will of the people of today. It is the will of the few, and the Christians of today have been duped into believing that they should not take a stand. We are as much a citizen with a right - even an obligation - to voice our opinion wherever and whenever God gives us opportunity, be it the polls, through communiques to our representatives, to our pulpits and public square. We have the freedom of speech as much as anyone - and before God, the obligation of speech.

So what's your role in life, Christian? To speak out for Jesus and His righteousness in America!