Biblical Foundations for Political Involvement

Chapter and verse

1. Focus and Unity:
• 2 Chronicles 30: 10-12
• Jeremiah 32: 38-42
• Matthew 6:33
• Philippians 3: 8-17
• Colossians 3: 23, 24
  
2. Our Role as Gods’ Children:
• Genesis 1:26, 27 (His Image)
• Genesis 1:26-30 (Our Responsibility)
  

We have been set or appointed as “stewards” and this appointment requires our participation. It is an action word.

               appointment = authority = accountability = responsibility


responsibility:
1. the quality or state of being responsible as a moral, legal or mental accountability.
2. something for which one is responsible

responsible:
1. able to answer for one’s conduct and obligations, able to choose for oneself between right and wrong.


What does this mean to you? We have a unique opportunity in Canada to choose the people who represent us. Our responsibility lies in choosing good stewards to represent our needs in the government of this nation.

We cannot afford to randomly cast our votes in Canada but need to make wise choices based on an effort to know the candidates and discovering their stands on various issues. Learn about the candidates in your riding- their character, values, integrity and where they stand.

* When we carefully consider our vote, we act responsibly and fulfill a part of our mandate as a believer.

Pastors/Spiritual leaders should lead on moral issues not only in their churches, but in the community, and the nation. Christians ought to lead in a way that others will follow. *