Our “Good Conversation” has surfaced a couple of points that I think are very important.

None of us want our moral advocacy, political involvement, or lack of political involvement to indicate a lack of concern for others. In fact, we probably would all like to believe that we support political action or inaction based on what we believe is good for everyone.

Just as our discussion has not resulted in disagreement about whether we should care about others, we haven’t spent time disagreeing whether the moral issues being debated by our society are right or wrong.

We probably would also acknowledge together that the New Testament doesn’t say anything about citizens’ moral advocacy efforts because Caesars didn’t give all Roman citizens the option of voting on public policy.

But where some of us part ways is how we relate to public moral advocacy.

So here are some questions:

1. Does the kingdom of God, as it now exists, grow by the kind of public moral and legal policies that were in force during the days of Israel’s theocracy (rule of God)? In other words do we believe that the Ten Commandments, and all supporting case law, as found in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, should be the rule of the land in the United States? If not all, which of the Ten commandments should be law?

2. If we do believe that any or all of the 10 commandments should be law today, from what we’ve seen of the way recent political elections are fought in the media, do we think that public political elections will put in the best light our convictions in the need for the following?

1. No God but the God of the Exodus
2. No images of God
3. No misuse of the name of God
4. No work on the 7th day
5. No dishonoring of parents
6. No murder
7. No adultery
8. No stealing
9. No false accusations
10. No coveting

3. If we do think that we’d personally line up for any of these in a public election, do we think it would be good for followers of Christ– as a whole– to be pitted against followers of Islam, Hinduism, or Atheism  in such an election? Is that how we think we can best show care for our neighbors or enemies?

PS Caught the animals on recent walks. Seems to me that they were as wary of me as some of our neighbors, friends, and enemies are afraid of our faith.

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