It’s 4th of July week in this 2012 election year, and on today’s Front Porch Friday we’re going to talk about Christians and politics: can the two mix?
I’ll share what I believe, and because this is America — and because this blog is a place where you can exercise free speech — I welcome your comments about today’s topic. So, come on over, and I’ll see you on the porch!
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I’d love to hear your feedback, Founding Father quotes and others, or scriptures on this topic. Or if you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future Front Porch Friday, please post it as a comment below, or email me at priority@priorityministries.com. Love!
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The following quotes were found on WallBuilders.com — a great site for information about our Christian heritage and important issues facing our country today:
“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature . . . the power I mean of electing at stated periods [each] branch . . . It becomes necessary to every [citizen] then, to be in some degree a statesman, and to examine and judge for himself of the tendency of political principles and measures. Let us examine, then, with a sober . . and a Christian spirit; let us neglect all party [loyalty] and advert to facts; let us believe no man to be infallible or impeccable in government any more than in religion; take no man’s word against evidence, nor implicitly adopt the sentiments of others who may be deceived themselves, or may be interested in deceiving us.” John Adams, The Papers of John Adams, Robert J. Taylor, ed. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977), vol 1, p. 81, from “‘U’ to the Boston Gazette” written on August 29, 1763.
“I have one great political idea . . . that idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people’ (Proverbs 14:34). This constitutes my politics – the negative and positive of my politics and the whole of my politics . . . I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.” Frederick Douglass, The Frederick Douglass Papers, John Blassingame, editor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), Vol. 2, p. 397, from a speech delivered at Ithaca, New York, October 14th, 1852.
“The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it — and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they [Christians] take [in politics].” Charles G. Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1868), Lecture XV, pp. 281-282.
Be informed: visit these websites for up-to-date information on politics, issues of the day, and current legislation: Wallbuilders.com, Citizenlink.com, and FamilyResearchCouncil.org .