Voting for your candidate is acceptable, and no Christian would ever want a Democrat in the White House, but churches should refrain from teaching it from the pulpit.
Politics will likely continue influencing many Churchgoers’ lives instead of the Bible. Politics cannot bring salvation, define morality, provide ultimate meaning, or secure our relationships.
Jesus brought salvation, dictated morality, provided meaning to anyone who accepted his way, and showed through love how to have a meaningful relationship.
The government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” is a great way to govern a country. However, without the guidance of the Bible’s teachings for the citizens, that government will deteriorate until the “people no longer matter.”
Many churches have strayed from teaching Biblical truths and become entangled in politics instead.
Jesus and his followers were never political but teachers of truth. Too many people in pulpits and churches have a worldview that is not Biblical.
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“Identifying as conservative or Republican doesn’t automatically make you a Christian. Jesus claimed to be the way, the truth, and the life. To understand and embrace this, one must study the Bible and experience a spiritual rebirth through this truth.”
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2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter 2:1 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
We must renew our minds. Not the worldly mind we had from living on earth, but a renewed mind based on the truth in the Bible.
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