Is It “Enough” To Be A Christian Legislator?

Dale-c · Apr 23, 2007

Electing Christians to public office, as important as that is, will only help solve our cultural challenges if they govern according to a Christian worldview. Otherwise the legislator or judge will be a well-intentioned “conservative” who supports the 2nd Table of the Law (commandments 5-10), but who hesitates to proclaim the authority behind his ethics (the 1st Table, commandments 1-4). This denial of God means all political debates come down to conservative man’s word against liberal man’s word. We cannot expect to improve our culture based upon, “He said, she said” reasoning. Make no mistake, we must do what we can to elect Christians to public office, but we must also be aware that only one in twenty adult Christians has a developed Christian worldview. This means we have a big time discipleship job to do to help our brothers understand how to connect their Spiritual Dots from their head to their feet and incorporate biblical truths into their legislative decisions.

The pages of the Old Testament show that no form of civil government has ever succeeded unless it has based its governance upon biblical principles. As the prophet Isaiah exclaims

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word,

it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8.20

Your Calling: And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the

renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good

and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12.2

Your Goal: Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in

heaven. Matthew 6.10
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From : http://www.graceandlaw.com/

billwald · Apr 23, 2007

Is Not Enough! Another term of Jimmy Carter and he probably would have given Alaska back to Russia.

Dragoon68 · Apr 24, 2007

I can't disagree regarding Jimmy Carter!

It would certainly be good to have qualified Christians as our leaders, representatives, and judges verses similary qualified non-Christians.

It's interesting to note that long ago many of the States of our nation actually required that state officials be Christians.

Dragoon68 · Apr 26, 2007

This is a good time to recall the quotation of John Jay (our very first Chief Justice) who said: "Providence has given to our people the choice of rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

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