Thursday, October 27, 2016

America is in Crisis. How Should a Christian Vote?

Mike Hosey, An Elder
The word “crisis” has been misused severely for the past several decades.  So much so that it’s misused meaning has become its accepted meaning.  When we use it today, we generally refer to a time of extreme difficulty or danger requiring serious attention.  But its actual meaning is rooted in the Greek word krisis, which means “a decision.” It is derived from another Greek word (kreinen) which means “to decide.”   Therefore, a crisis is a time in which a choice of some kind must be made. In a true crisis, that choice will lead to either disaster or recovery.  Its semantic origins are medical. Essentially, it meant (and still means) the turning point during a disease process in which the disease conquers the host, or is conquered by the host.

America is in a disease process. We have cancer, and we’ve been dying for decades. The situation is critical. Our choices in the next couple of weeks will contribute in profound ways. Will we continue down a path of disease and death, or will we begin a long and arduous climb into recovery? We can either begin treatment, or we can forego it and allow the disease process to advance to an unrecoverable stage.

In America, the highest public official in the land is not the president of the United States. It is not the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It isn’t a congressman, or a mayor, or a governor.  The highest public official in the land is the citizen. It is the citizen who chooses those to whom he will have to answer. It is the citizen who chooses those who will make his laws.  It is the citizenry that is reflected by the philosophies, deeds and character of its leaders.  In America, God allows us to pick the leaders we deserve.

What this means is that if you are a Christian citizen of the USA, you have a duty not to vote for the man or the woman, but to vote for policies and principles that will shape your nation into the kind of community that God wants. So know what your candidates stand for, and vote in a way that best employs Godly principles and ideals from the choices you have available.  But more importantly than that, influence your immediate world in such a way that America can only produce good candidates from which to choose. 

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