John Malek, Christian businessman, veteran pro-life activist and now a reflective blogger, wonders if politics might possibly represent a holy calling.He considers this important question over at In Pursuit of Reason. Check it out.
...That being said, I know that as a believer our number one role is to fulfill the great commission, to take the gospel to the whole world. Politics, however, according to Word-Origins.com is “etymologically the art of ‘civil administration’” and I think that captures what I think of when I think of the term politics – how society organizes and governs itself. But back to fulfilling the great commission, how can politics do that? Our kingdom is not of this world so why should we concern ourselves with this worldly endeavor?
Politics is something which affects much, if not all of our lives, and over the past few years I have seen more and more clearly how politics and our involvement and interest through informing ourselves on the issues of the day is increasingly necessary and, indeed, a holy calling. Jesus challenged us to be salt and light to our culture and Christians through the ages have fulfilled that charge by slowly turning and molding the collective consciences of their communities. A cursory history of Western (Christianized) culture will show that in the areas of slavery, treatment of women, rule of law, treatment of prisoners, the poor, handicapped and infirm among others, the church has positively influenced culture.
We are still called to affect our culture and as citizens of the largest Republic, we have unprecedented opportunities to affect and mold the conscience of our nation and because of our nations influence, the world. Jesus and Paul both affirmed a duty of Christians is to be good citizens and in order to do that, we first must be men and women like the men of Issachar “who understood the times and knew what Israel should do” I Chronicles 12:32. Do we understand the times? Do we know what America should do?...
