My goal with this two-part series is to present a Christian’s reasoning on why to vote for each candidate. In part one, I shared My Obligatory (Unoriginal) Donald Trump Postwritten by my brother, Stanford Gibson, in which he shared his reasoning for voting for Hillary Clinton. Below is my Christian perspective on voting for Donald Trump. My hope is to provide you with further knowledge to help you prudently and conscientiously make your decision on November 8.
To review, Stanford gave four reasons for voting for Hillary Clinton in his post:
The office of the president and its cultural power
Donald Trump’s lack of temperance (specifically in reference to drones)
Mr. Trump’s positions on immigrants and refugees
Sentencing reform
In this post, I will address the issues for which an opposite case can be made for Donald Trump, as well as provide additional reasons in favor of a Trump vote.
In Voting in a No-Win Election, I presented some ways to think through the decision of which presidential candidate to vote for in the election on Tuesday. My goal with this two-part series is to present a Christian’s perspective on why to vote for each candidate.
Below, I’ve shared My Obligatory (Unoriginal) Donald Trump Postwritten by my brother, Stanford Gibson, in which he shares his reasoning for voting for Hillary Clinton. Part two will be a Christian perspective on voting for Donald Trump. My hope in offering two perspectives is to provide you with further knowledge to help you prudently and conscientiously make your decision on November 8.
The Bible does not mention democracy. Christian faith is a completely adaptable faith in political terms because God knew his church would always be a minority. He knew that the people of Christ would have to be able to exist in a dictatorship as well as a republic, and everything in between. Because of this, there is no Bible passage on who we should vote for. We are left to theology and prudence: our best understanding of the implications of scripture and the wisest way to apply them.
This is relevant in the present American election. We have before us four unhelpful choices:
The most personally distasteful candidate of a major party
The most corrupt candidate of a major party
Three candidates that can’t possibly receive a majority of votes
In Part 1 of my letter, I talked about Paul’s teaching on the value of singleness. In order to understand how to live in our day and time, though, more needs to be said on the issue.
I’m told that one in seven people lives alone in the United States. That’s about 31 million today compared with four million in 1950. As your pastor, I need to say a number of things about this.
Part 1: Prolonged Singleness As a Non-Normative Blessing
In the most recent sermon from our Onwardseries, we considered the significance of the family within the kingdom of God, looking specifically at both marriage and singleness. Since churches are prone to giving attention to marriage and parenting to the neglect of singleness, even though single men and women make up a growing portion of our churches, I wanted to give some extra time to a Biblical reflection on singleness. Continue reading Dear single people, from your local pastor (Part 1)→
The founders of the United States asked the question, “Now that we have won our liberty, how can liberty continue, when no nation has ever been formed on the basis of liberty?” Our teachers in school taught us that they organized a government that had a declaration of rights and the separation of powers, both in federalism and in the division of the federal government. These were aimed at keeping any person or party from consolidating enough power to be tyrannical. They then formed a government just strong enough to prevent weakness from producing anarchy, which would cause people to call for tyranny in order to have peace and safety.
The Necessity of Virtue
Yet this was not the primary foundational conviction of the American fathers. All of our structures are built upon a more basic set of convictions about human nature. The fathers so assumed these ideas that they are rarely made explicit in their writings, but you can find evidence of them everywhere. Continue reading The Golden Triangle of Freedom→
Engage & Equip 