The American founders knew that faith and politics went hand in hand and that freedom relied on a God-centered citizenry in order to self-govern and keep government small.
Today’s Christians?
Not so engaged.
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And when the churches fail to preach in a manner that helps their congregations engage in the world and in politics in a practical way, then the nation suffers — the nation’s freedoms suffer.
Jeff Samelson, author of “Walk This Way: Political Engagement for Bible-Believing Christians,” said it’s time for believers to stop losing their relationships over politics and start to relearn the tools of associating with those of differing views in ways that God would approve.
Samelson was the pastor of a church right outside Washington, D.C., where political staffers and government workers of all viewpoints worshipped — and also a Foreign Service worker. So he has much to say about unity in a nation of people whose viewpoints have become diametrically opposed.
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