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WisconsinChristianNews.com
Volume 25, Issue 7
Shouldn’t Christians Stay Out Of Politics?
By Dr. Jerry Newcombe November/December 2024 The elections have consumed so much of our energy as of late. Before we close the door on the 2024 elections, it’s good to con- sider some wisdom from our founding fathers and other note- worthy Americans on voting. I read a joke recently wherein a surgeon, an engineer, and a politician were arguing as to which one of their professions was the oldest. The surgeon said, “Surely, mine is. Since God did surgery on Adam to produce Eve.” The engineer said, “Yeah, but before the creation of Adam and Eve, the chaos was made into order. Making order out of chaos is the work of the engineer.”
“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”
been erased.
change the government practi- cally just so much.”
The great 19th century Chris- tian statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), senator from Mas- sachusetts, once declared, “If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a na- tion. If truth be not diffused, error will be.”
Well, it has been said that in America, we get the kind of gov- ernment we deserve. Histori- cally, Christians in America applied their faith to virtually every sphere of life, including their politics. While the founding fathers were not all Christians, the vast majority of them were, and more
He also noted this — a state- ment that I think about in light of the ACLU and other secular- ists trying to rob us of our liber- ties and our rich Christian heritage: “A majority held in re- straint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.” Lincoln’s successor, the 17th President, Andrew Johnson, was the first president to be im- peached; but he was saved from expulsion from office by one vote. Nonetheless, he recognized that our rights are God-given. Said Johnson: “This is the peo- ples’ Government; they received it as a legacy from Heaven, and they must defend it and pre- serve it.” Our 26th president was Theodore Roosevelt. He reminds us of the arduous task govern- ment is for “we the people”: “The noblest of all forms of govern- ment is self-government; but it is also the most difficult.” Whatever all the final results will prove to be in the 2024 elec- tions, “we the people” need to remember who is in charge. Theoretically, the politicians are our servants and not vice versa. As Teddy Roosevelt worded it, “If people cannot rule them- selves, then they are not fit for free government, and all talk about democracy is a sham.” Dr. Jerry Newcombe is the exec- utive director of Providence Forum, a division of Coral Ridge Ministries, where Jerry also serves as senior producer and an on-air contributor. He has written/co- written 33 books, including (with D. James Kennedy), “What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?” and (with Dr. Peter Lillback), “George Washington’s Sacred Fire.”
Webster also stated: “If God
“Yeah, but who created the
chaos?” asked the politician.
Shouldn’t Christians stay out of politics? That’s what many people seem to advocate these days. And yet one man had the temerity to say this: “Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Oh, my goodness. Who said that? Jerry Falwell? Alex Jones? Atilla the Hun? No, actually it was said by John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. He was appointed by our first president, George Washing- ton. Again, it’s the duty and privi- lege of Christians to prefer Christians as our political lead- ers, according to our first chief justice. Wow. How far we have fallen. Now we have a crisis where many Christians don’t even bother to vote in modern America. Some aren’t even reg- istered to vote.
“If we, as Christians, are not involved in culture, including politics, then ungodly men and women will be...”
importantly, they had a biblical worldview. Our two key found- ing documents are the Declara- tion of Independence, which says our rights come from God, and the Constitution which ex- plains how this government is to work. The founders believed the Biblical witness that man is sin- ful. So they designed the divi- sion of power very carefully. What made America so special gets back to our Judeo-Christ- ian foundation. But this fact has been lost on so many Americans who now view the nation as a happy accident and who view Christians as interlopers in an otherwise blissful secular state. Furthermore, our history has been rewritten and God has
and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licen- tious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt through- out the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corrup- tion and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.” Nature abhors a vacuum. If we, as Christians, are not in- volved in culture, including pol- itics, then ungodly men and women will be. Abraham Lincoln said: “Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can
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