You Have The Power To Turn Around This Country - Vote - Biblical Values

Hold on tight because I’m going to share some staggering statistics with you in this post.  My friend, Chad Connelly with www.FaithWins.us , informed me that the ‘church going vote’ in America is the most powerful voting bloc that exists in our country. Let me say that again, the most powerful voting bloc in the United States, if it was fully engaged, is church goers. The bad news is – the church isn’t showing up and it doesn’t know how to vote with a biblical world view.

Here are the numbers:

• 80 - 82 million eligible church going voters in the US

• 30 million of them vote regularly but not always.

• 25 - 30 million of them are registered to vote but DO NOT VOTE

• 25 - 30 million of them ARE NOT registered to vote

• 50 million eligible church going voters are not engaged

• 575,000 elected officials in the country – most are elected by a small % of actual eligible voters

• Almost all pastors of churches in America do not talk about voter registration or teach about voting according to our biblical values from a biblical world view.

Now normally the topic of the iWork4Him weekly blog relates in some fashion to living out our faith in our work. Today, I want to focus on living out your faith in all of your life.  We live in a free country and have been given a right to vote for whomever we wish. Are you happy with where the country is heading? Do you think your elected officials represent you and your biblical values well.  Most presidential elections are decided by 60% of the eligible voting population and 40% in non-presidential election years.  If 100% of Church going biblical values based voters actually voted, our country would be headed in a direction based on those values.

The final staggering FACTOID of the day.  It is legal and acceptable in this country for a church to hold a non-partisan voter registration event, even during church services.  Most pastors and leaders think this is illegal.  Unbelievably, there are many organizations and media outlets that have perpetrated the lie that it is illegal for the church to get involved in politics and voting.  They claim “the separation of church and state” is the issue.  You research this for yourselves, but the truth is that Jefferson wrote about protecting the church FROM the state not the STATE from the church. The latter is a manifesto of secularism and communism.

IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO RISE UP AND GET INVOLVED IN RUNNING THIS COUNTRY AGAIN.  As the body of Christ we are the only ones with a real solution to the problems of America. Jesus is the only hope for our country. The biblical values we see written and demonstrated from Genesis to Revelation are the only values that bring freedom, equality and justice for all. PERIOD…end of story.

So, when was the last time you voted? Did you vote in your local primary election this year? Are you registered to vote? Are all your friends at church registered to vote?  Will your church, an institution dedicated to the transformation of our communities, allow a non-partisan voter registration the last two Sundays of September in 2020 in order to mobilize voters with biblical values to vote those values in the fall election on November 3rd?

When the church leads in courageous humility, our country will become transformational on a worldwide basis. We have seen it before and we can see it again. It starts with you – register to vote, gather others to join you and help your pastor and local church community to promote participation in our elections.

Pastors – if you are reading this – Christians need to be the thought leaders because Christ gave us all the answers. Start talking through the difficult issues on Sunday and equip your congregations with a biblical world view. It is the ONLY view based on Truth and that offers Hope.

If you want to know how to get started…check out www.FAITHWINS.US for all the resources to take action.

Jim

Intrigued but not convinced?  Listen to Chad in a recent iWork4Him interview.

About the Author, Jim Brangenberg

Jim's Mission: We are called to be examples of Christ to those around us. With that in mind, Jim is passionate about helping Christ followers connect their faith to their work!

Nineveh: The Day Before Jonah Shows Up

Last night I woke up just after midnight with the word “Nineveh” impressed on my mind. God reminded me of the story of Jonah found in the Old Testament of the Bible.  The night before Jonah arrived at Nineveh, it was a place much like America today, with wickedness running rampant. In Jonah Chapter 3, Jonah is called once again to the great city of Nineveh to let them know that if they didn’t repent, in 40 days they would be destroyed. Now understand, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire, a growing world power but it was a wicked place. God had issued a destruction proclamation on the city because the wickedness had risen to a level that could not be tolerated any longer on planet Earth. Jonah takes 3 days to walk around the city telling people to repent.   They believed him and from their highest ruler to the last person in the city, they all repented, threw on sackcloth and ashes, and prayed that God would spare them, which He did. There was actually a shrine in Northern Iraq in Jonah’s name because of his work with the Assyrians.  God used one obedient human, Jonah, to save a city of 120,000 people.

Who is our Jonah of today? Who is going to preach to our country that we need to repent? I don’t know if there is just one person or if it is the army of 55 million believers in the marketplace that are called to do this job.  I believe we are all called to speak truth to those around us at work, in our homes, and neighborhoods.  We are surrounded by those who are lost and hopeless; those who are enslaved to a life of sin. We have each been sent to a unique place in our work and in our home. We spend our days next to humans that God loves and wants to call out of their sin and give them FREEDOM.

Your role in this is clear. Live a life so compelling, through the power of the Holy Spirit living in you, that those around you can’t keep from asking what is different about you. Jesus is the solution to all the worlds problems and He has sent you to deliver that message.

So, is it too late for our country or is it just like the night before Jonah arrived? I am praying for the latter.

Jim

About the Author, Jim Brangenberg

Jim's Mission: We are called to be examples of Christ to those around us. With that in mind, Jim is passionate about helping Christ followers connect their faith to their work!