Christian Duty?
With the 2008 USA presidential race being a topic of conversation in most circles, the question is raised, “Is it a Christian Duty to be involved in politics?” Good question.
Having gotten a bit too close to the process during my early days in college, I became “apolitical” for awhile. I decided that the process was controlled by those with power and money and that it was corrupt beyond belief. I avoided politics for years thereafter and figured that God would handle it; I couldn’t. After all, didn’t Jesus say that His kingdom was “not of this world”?
My opinion has changed. No situation is too big to give up on and God does call us to be involved in our society. If nothing else, we are to pray for our leaders and be subject to them. See Romans 13 for a Pauline discourse on the subject.
Hosanna kids are in the process of discovering what the Bible has to say about politics. Furthermore, we are taking a look at our local situation. We are the only Congressional district in the United States where the incumbent is not being opposed by the other major party. Why is that? Our research thus far has shown that our representative is simply too popular and too powerful to be challenged.
We did find that there is an Independent candidate who has entered the race. Right now, we are querying both men on their positions, using school vouchers as our point of entry. The challenger, Jim Holbert, has written back and we are hoping to persuade him to come by and speak to our school. The incumbent, Hal Rogers, has yet to answer our inquiry but we look forward to a reply and will invite him to do the same.
One thing about it: Our involvement will not be fruitless. We will investigate the idea of Christian Duty and we will become more knowledgeable about the way our government works. And as the high school kids say, “We can’t vote in this election, but we sure will be a factor in the next.”
A Citizen’s Duty…
Dani Sevilla, of Survivor Corps, has persistently urged me to write about the global movement to ban cluster bombs. I considered the issue, but had to refuse–so this post is a roundabout way of responding to Dani’s request, while remaining separate from it. Why?
I simply do not know enough about the issue to wade into the controversy. On one hand, I hate to hear stories of civilian casualties from the use of cluster bombs. On the other hand, I can see the wisdom in the bumper sticker proclaiming, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” The bottom-line is that I don’t feel qualified to advise the military on choice of weapons. For my part, I would do away with the hatred that causes one person to strike another. That will happen someday, but it does not appear that the time has yet appeared.
Dani: I do appreciate your hard work for Survivor Corps and your confidence in this blog. The best I can do is to advise my readers that more information can be found by clicking here. Is it a citizen’s duty to be involved in such issues? For now, I’ll hide behind the concept of a republican form of government whereby the voters elect others to do the research and keep the Department of Defense in check.
God bless you and God bless America.
God Bless America
Today marks seven years since the 9.11 attack on the land of the free. Wishing you the best Patriot Day ever. God bless America and God bless you.
Umbrella
Anyone brave enough to watch the America’s Got Talent television show last week had to wade through a whole lot of travesty to get to something worth seeing. The Taubl Family showed us the beauty that comes from working together. Here’s their song, “Umbrella.”
