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It’s a presidential election year! Many church leaders and other committed Christians are rightly concerned about how the church (as a movement of believers) engaged in or disengaged from public life in 2020. So, what will 2024 bring? This year certainly presents a challenge but is also an opportunity for the church to have a strong, intentional, and grace-filled influence in American public life. And here are three key resolutions for doing just that.
- We will not divide over issues of conscience.
- We will not disengage from public life.
- We will disciple Christians in their role as citizen.
Key Takeaways
- Thoughts on 2024 and the state of the American experiment. The machinery of our democratic republic is creaking/sputtering, pressured by division rather than unity, expressive individualism rather than individual responsibility, open license rather than ordered liberty, secular philosophies rather than Biblical truths, and threats internal and external from a changing world order. Self-government requires self-control. If freedom is the fuel of America, the “open license,” low-octane version of freedom will not make it go. We need a recommitment to ordered liberty, and the church is the best hope for restoring that view of freedom. Thus, 2024 is a critical year. I don’t know if it the most important election in our lifetime, but it certainly is an important election.
- Reflections from Romans 14
- Reflections from 1790 election sermon