Our Responsibility To Government II

“You are the salt of the earth...You are the light of the world”
Matt 5, 13, 14

The question always comes, “Should Christians be engaged in the political process of our nation?”

Consider the biblical examples of Joseph (Genesis 41), Daniel, (Daniel 60, and Paul, (Acts 17:22-34; 22:22-26,32).

Our society is based on God given freedoms and responsibilities-
David Brewer - "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. This is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour. There is a single voice making this affirmation. We can find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”

Christians are to be salt and light in the world, including the government. Matt 5:13-14

John Jay - "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

Theodore Roosevelt - "In this actual world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at, or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down-grade."

John Adams - “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”