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At election time I used to tell the church I pastored:  “Now go vote; that is a God-given privilege; but don’t get involved in politics.  That’s just a dirty business, and if you get involved with it, you’ll get dirty too.”  I learned that statement from older Pastors who had helped me start in the ministry.  Why have Pastors refused to be involved in the political realm?

We’ve bought into the lie that if we preach the Gospel everything else will be taken care of.  And, I would agree with that—if we were preaching the Gospel Jesus said to preach.  Most of us as Evangelicals have thought we were preaching the Gospel; and we were—it’s initial part.  We’ve told people that we all were sinners and needed a personal Lord and Saviour.  That is exactly right.  That’s where Christianity starts.  But it doesn’t end there, like many of us have thought.  When Jesus said in Matthew 28,

“Go ye therefore and teach all nations…”

He was not only telling us to teach them that they were sinners and needed a personal Saviour, He was telling us to,

“…[teach] them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:19-20)

“Observing all things…” means that we who are Christians are to take “dominion”, like He said in Genesis 1:26 we were created to do!  We are to rule, which is Continue reading →

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With the election only a month away, the candidates are fervently pushing their agenda, trying to convince us we should trust them with the future of our children.  That is what’s at stake, you know.  They promise us ‘all will be well’ if we give them our vote.  But with all the lies politicians have told us throughout our lives, why should we even bother to vote?  Well, the last two generations, many have decided not to.  We now think we’ve had a good voter turnout if 50% of those registered to vote get to the polls.  Not to mention the huge numbers who haven’t cared enough to even register.  How sad!

Why has this happened?  Since the 1920s most of our universities have been teaching that there is no God and life is all about us, and our pleasure.  Without knowing that the God of the Bible created us in an instant of time, we have no association with Him, which means we have no reason for self-worth, or for committing our lives to worthwhile tasks.  We simply “live for the weekend” as many put it.

This spills over into the governmental realm.  People who live for pleasure are Continue reading →