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06/30/12 5:40 AM
Art wrote:being involved in electoral politics is a Christian duty.No, its not. The duty of the christian is not getting entangled by the course of this world and its affairs , but to pray for the powers that be, and be witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ. There is not one place in the new testament where Christ and the apostles got involved in the affairs of the government- they had a much higher calling- to be witnesses for the saviour. The preaching of the cross will save a soul for eternity, not roasting every president that you don't like.
Jesus taught his followers, as recorded in the Sermon on the Mount, that we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Salt was used, in the absence of refrigeration, to arrest the spread of decay. Light, of course, was and is used to dispel darkness. His point quite simply is that he intends his followers to penetrate all of life so that by our presence the spread of moral corruption can be arrested and darkness and ignorance about important matters can be replaced with illumination and truth. And anywhere Christians refuse to engage, and so remove both salt and light, we ought to expect nothing but decay and darkness. When Jesus said we were the salt of the earth and the light of the world, he meant that we are his Plan A and there is no Plan B.More . . .
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