Clear Thinking in a Confused World of Politics
2020 - Election decided by less than 50k Votes
30 Million Christians did not vote
What is the Role of Government?
1. God designed government to restrain evil.
Fear and Terror
2. God desires government to encourage good.
Officials are the servants of God. Same word we translate as Deacons.
This is why they are worthy of honor.
3. God designated government to punish evil.
We should Pray for our elected officials
We should Honor our elected officials.
We should remember that government is not the answer to our problems.
What a Vote is Not
- Vote not a Valentine
- Vote not a Mailbox
- Vote Not a Sacrament
- FOF Video Resource/Howerton
Why Should We Care?
- Religious Freedom
- Borders and Security
- Biological Sex
- Biblical Family
- Sanctity of Life
Sin Problem Requires a Savior
- Neither party is “righteous,” but the Democratic Party has publicly and forcefully denied biblical values.
There is no question that the Republican Party has recently weakened its positions in order to attract a broader coalition (a decision that I believe is tragic and will ultimately prove unhelpful). However, of the two parties, I think it is still easy to see which party welcomes biblical Christians and which requires them to check Bible-based beliefs at the door.
Perhaps you have seen the video from last week of a Harris-Walz rally in which two students shouted “Jesus is Lord” and “Christ is King.” Kamala Harris immediately responded, “I think you’re at the wrong rally.”[1]
This is not an isolated incident. The Democratic Party has made it abundantly known that they are against what God is for (the sanctity of life, created genders, biblical family) and are for what God is against (taking the lives of the unborn, mutilating children’s bodies, pushing an aggressive LGBTQ agenda).
The reality of these sad statements has been repeatedly proven by the Democratic Party and specifically by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in recent months. For instance, consider the following: • Planned Parenthood vans were welcomed to provide abortions outside the Democratic National Convention.[2]
• Harris is opposed to any restrictions on abortion, and recently stated that when Congress passes a bill to federally legalize abortion, “as president of the United States, I will proudly, proudly sign it into law.”[3]
As a senator, she voted against a bill that would ban abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy.[4]
• Walz supported a bill in Minnesota that legalizes denying life-saving medical care to infants born alive after botched abortions.[5]
• Harris has publicly stated support for taxpayer-funded “gender transition” surgeries for prisoners and illegal immigrants (a position she is trying to distance herself from during this election cycle).[6]
• Harris supports sex-change surgeries for minors, seen, for example, when the Biden-Harris Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court to take up the case of a Tennessee law that bans gender transition for minors.[7]
• Harris supports biological men playing against biological women in athletics.[8]
https://paulchappell.com/2024/10/25/thoughts-for-american-christians-in-this-election/