Patriotic Evangelism: Presidents' Day Bonus Page
Monday, February 19, 2007
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Bible Verse for Bonus Day: Remind your people to submit to the government and its officers. They should be obedient, always ready to do what is good (Titus 3:1).
The term Christian America is sometimes used erroneously to describe the philosophical and theological foundation on which the United States was built. Has America ever been a Christian nation? No. Our nation was founded on biblical Judeo-Christian principles wedded to enlightenment ideas of self-government. Those ideas work only when a significant segment of the population is voluntarily obeying the law because they are aware of being subject to a higher authority. When this percentage of the population that is voluntarily obeying the law drops below a certain level, then a self-governing democracy doesn't work.
John Adams, our second president and one who labored most diligently to secure our Constitution wrote this in 1798:
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
A genuinely Christian America would mean that the vast majority of its citizens has come to a personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior—not through government sponsorship or subsidy, but by the evangelistic action of individual Christians, churches, and mission groups.
—Richard Land in Real Homeland Security
Adapted from Real Homeland Security (Broadman & Holman) by permission.
Copyright © 2007 by the author or Christianity Today/Men of Integrity magazine.
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