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I haven't posted for a few days now. My life has been a little hectic lately.
I've had a question running through my mind, though, that I don't have a specific answer to, but I do have a general sense of what that answer would look like.
What if all the Christians stayed silent?
What if all the Christian politicians decided to stay silent? What if all the Christian doctors quit their practice? What if all the Christian actors left Hollywood? What if all the Christian journalists stopped writing? What if all the Christian broadcasters stopped telling stories? What if all the Christians just hunkered down and retreated into monestaries? I'm not even talking about Christians in "Christian work." What if all the Christians who had positions out in the "secular" world decided to give up and throw in the towel? What would our world look like?
A world without Christians is a world that I don't want to live in.
Here's the point. I have met and can claim that I know a Representative in Congress from my district. This Representative happens to be Christian. This same Representative has also consistently been an advocate of all the things I hold dear. He is conservative. He wants to be fiscally responsible. He wants to limit government and empower citizens. He wants to do the right thing. I'm thankful and grateful that he's there. If he were not, there would be one less voice, one less vote, one less representative for my views in this country. This country, my state, and my district would be greatly empoverished. He is a man who is not hiding from the enemy, he's not staying silent, he's not giving in. He's an inspiration to me.
But how many other Christians are NOT out in the world doing what they ought to be doing? How many are ruled by fear? Or too distracted by their own issues? Or is too disgusted with the world to engage with it?
We need more Christians to raise their voices, to defend the weak, to seek justice, and do good - OUT THERE - out in the marketplace, out in the world.
I'm becoming daily more convinced of the wisdom of the saying, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Are you willing to stand up and be counted? You never know who might be inspired by what you do.
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I wonder how this post "jives" with your post above - I agree with you on both counts - limits to government interference and Christians insisting on being the salt and light of the earth, not hiding under a bushel (no!).
But it strikes me as ironic that your primary example is a political figure. I think (as I'm sure you do) that Christians must be active salt in all areas of life, including political areas.
But I'd like to hear what you think...is there a logical gap between the tendency many have to hold both a conviction that we will stand or fail based on politics, while saying that government should be limited so that we can act more freely in our private capacities?
I am with you here. It's a common mistake for Christians to think that politics is our ultimate savior and "we will stand or fail based on politics." I believe that is not right. The Moral Majority movement of the 80's got that wrong in my opinion. However, I don't believe the answer to that is to just dis-engage ourselves from politics. I think it's critical for Christians to be in politics for two primary reasons: 1)The government holds so much power in our country today that we really need people with moral restraint to be in those positions. The example I used (Peter Roskam) was an example of someone like that. The reality is, government does have a lot of power these days and its actions do, in fact, impact us. Because of that, it's more critical than ever that people of good judgement are in those positions. 2)In order for government to become more limited in its scope, programs must be ratcheted back, budgets cut, spending reduced, etc. You can't do those things just from not being involved in politics. On the contrary, these actions can only be done from within (as far as I know, anyway).
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