Should you be a political activist?<\/p>\n
Maybe. Maybe not. While I think that\u2019s a good question to think about (with others and an open bible), I am more interested that there is freedom given for godly saints to answer that question in different ways. I think Christian charity should make more room for different good responses to that question. We must enlarge our view of faithfulness.<\/p>\n
WHAT\u2019S REQUIRED OF EVERY CHRISTIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s start with some of what\u2019s required of every Christian.<\/p>\n Christ calls all of us to be the salt and light (Matt. 5:13\u201314). All of us, therefore, should have a seasoning, preserving, and illuminating influence in this dark and perverse generation. We cannot transform the world into something salvageable (1 Cor. 7:31), but we can influence the world for good as recipients of God\u2019s salvation and \u201cadorn the doctrine of God our Savior\u201d (Titus 2:10). We ought to work to diminish participation in sin, expose the existence of sin, proclaim that Christ is Savior and Lord, and supply a heavenly contrast that attracts attention to our Lord and his gospel.<\/p>\n Further, Scripture commands all of us to pray for the improvement of our societies and those who lead them:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What\u2019s often missing in our calls to action is charity and freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312,1376],"class_list":["post-24770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","tag-politics","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24772,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions\/24772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}