Christians and Politics

Edited August 8, 2008:
I decided that I should edit this article to show excerpts from John MacArthur’s articles on “Christians and Politics” to help clarify both what his views and what mine are. Neither John MacArthur nor myself believe that Christians should totally be uninvolved in politics, instead that Christians not lose their focus [...]

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One Mediator

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men–the testimony given in its proper time.” 1 Timothy 2:5, 6
There are several implications of this verse:

We make our prayers to our Mediator: Christ. We don’t pray to anyone else [...]

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A side note on Striving for the Kingdom

A couple of side notes that I wanted to incorporate into my post on Striving for the Kingdom but could not find a place to put without distracting and rabbit trailing from the main point were:

Notice that Jesus did not ask for the man to give all of his wealth to His ministry. So the [...]

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Striving for the Kingdom

Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.”
“Which ones?” the man inquired.
Jesus replied, “ ‘Do not murder, [...]

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True Christianity

There are 3 people groups which we see in the Bible that God really seems to watch over: the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
“The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.” Psalm 146:9
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of [...]

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