Who are we looking to?
Whether Democrat, or Republican, one of the highlights, or lowlights, of American Christians is that we have fallen into the trap of believing government can save our society. Often times we are treated to a trip down memory lane when Leave It To Beaver and Andy Griffith were the most popular shows on television and Hollywood wasn't producing movies like Brokeback Mountain. Once we are fed this picture, we are then hit over the head with the words "Culture War".
We are then called to elect candidate X because he/she agrees with agenda Y which Christian groups Z and AA are calling Biblical. But the problem with candidate X is that he/she gets money from industry/lobby BB and CC, which could care less about Christians, much less what a Biblical worldview really stands for. What should we do?
I think part of what Christians should do is to stop looking to government to save us. We think of our lives on earth as needing a secular redemption where society is transformed into a Christian one. While, I believe with my whole heart that Christ is the great transformer of culture, I believe that comes through the Gospel.
I also think that Christians cannot and should not look to government to set things right in the world. Jesus is the one who says, "I make all things new", not the Democrat, Republican, or Constitution parties.
We are then called to elect candidate X because he/she agrees with agenda Y which Christian groups Z and AA are calling Biblical. But the problem with candidate X is that he/she gets money from industry/lobby BB and CC, which could care less about Christians, much less what a Biblical worldview really stands for. What should we do?
I think part of what Christians should do is to stop looking to government to save us. We think of our lives on earth as needing a secular redemption where society is transformed into a Christian one. While, I believe with my whole heart that Christ is the great transformer of culture, I believe that comes through the Gospel.
I also think that Christians cannot and should not look to government to set things right in the world. Jesus is the one who says, "I make all things new", not the Democrat, Republican, or Constitution parties.
posted by Bobby's blog at 1:43 PM
4 Comments:
Your points are good. Christians cannot and should not expect government to as you say save us. However, I think we should be involved in the culture war to the extent of our constitutional rights. To not do so is to disobey scripture such as Eph 5:11....
I am not saying that Christians should be absent from government, I am saying that Christians have a real problem in looking to our government to make things right. I think one of the hallmarks of the 19th century church was the battle against slavery. It was Christian principals from the parliment in the case of William Wilberforce, to the pulpit in the case of many American Abolishionists. The Church can speak to transforming the culture, we can speak to the sanctity of life, but we should not be so aligned to political parties that we are watering down the Gospel and putting our trust in government over God.
I'm looking to you, Bobby, to delete edwardfisher01564000's comment.
But he said my blog was inquisitive!
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