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For many years, the Church allowed its voice to be silenced in the Public Square. Whatever the cause of this, whether through well-intentioned religious leaders and laypeople discouraging active involvement in the governance of the United States, or from outright attacks launched upon the necessary relationship between any democratic government and the Christian Faith, this trend must be reversed. The position of the Advocates for Biblical Citizenship committee of Southern Gables Church is that it is the duty of all people living in the republic of the United States of America to actively participate in the governing of their country. Whether we exercise that responsibility directly or through elected representatives, we will be judged for the exercise of that rule. ABC believes and defends the right and responsibility of the Church to be actively involved in all aspects of government, keeping in mind that we are accountable to our God and Savior for our direct or representative rule. Words from U.S. History....John Adams, the then-to-be second president of the United States wrote the following on June 21, 1776, two weeks before the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand." Eric Sevareid, journalist: "It is when there is no vision that the people perish.... The politicians do not even use the word God any more, save when the ghost writer puts it in the last sentence of the speech, just to be safe. Lincoln used it quite often, because it was on his mind a lot. And maybe that gives us a clue to what has happened. Politics after all has profoundly to do with religion; the very political principles by which we live grew out of religious principles, in a confused struggle that took hundreds of years. But practically every leader now seems to have forgotten that, if he ever knew it." "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for redress of grievances." |
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Words from the Bible....Exodus 18:21: "Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens." |
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