My
colleague, Becca Coon, wrote the following very good article.
"In good
times and bad, government is foundational to society. And that is how God
intended it. In fact, God ordained three institutions—the family, the church
and civil government.
Scripture
tells us to respect and obey government authorities and ordinances, and to live
honorably within our communities. Local, state, federal—Christ carries 'the
government upon His shoulders' (Cf. Isaiah 9:6) and carefully determines those
in authority (see Romans 13), whose role is to punish evildoers.
Yet in
today’s highly politicized environment, society’s immorality eventually becomes
engrained in government institutions. When this happens, the government
institutions, if allowed, become agents of immorality and unbiblical thinking.
Every day, headlines splash across our screens announcing legislation that
further threatens the sanctity of marriage and the very definitions of male and
female, the lives of the unborn and the infirm, and the freedom of Christians
to follow the convictions of their faith in public."
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