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What’s the End Game?

 

After the results from Super Tuesday, Dr. Ben Carson now appears to have dropped out of the presidential race. Despite his political defeat he stated, “this grassroots movement on behalf of ‘We the People’ will continue . . . I remain committed to Saving America for Future Generations.” [a]

Is God a Republican?

Here in America we’ve been trained to think that our Christian faith is measured by our political passion, and that being a good Christian means being a good conservative Republican, as if the two were synonymous. We are certain that God sides with us politically, and that surely God is a Republican Himself. Ironically, when I look at the life of Jesus and His apolitical example,  I don’t see any obligation for my own political involvement. In fact I have never seen or heard of a political view or candidate that is even worth comparing to the King of Kings and His Kingdom. And as for living here, the Scriptures seem to say that my purpose in America is not for politics, but to share the good news of the Kingdom of Heaven and to make fellow disciples of Jesus. And though I live here in America, I understand that my “citizenship is in heaven, and from it [I] await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

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