40 days towards a more godly nation - Jesus Is Involved In Politics

Day Thirteen
All laws have moral foundations, and all morals have religious foundations.
Politicians are in the business of making laws. Thus, all politics is religious in
nature. A politician's religious views are just as critical as his economic
views. A politician who does not understand this will not be a good lawmaker,
and you should never vote for him.
Objective Morality & Politics,
No Blind Faith Sunday School Class
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from
it.
Proverbs 22:6
I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his
heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in
men that really yearns for discipline.
Vince Lombardi
But Laws Don’t Change Hearts
H
ow many times have you heard it said, “Ah, but laws don’t
change hearts!”
The idea here is that we should not focus on changing the laws of the
land because that doesn’t work; instead, we should just witness to people, and
Christ will change their hearts. We just need to preach the Gospel. Then over
time we’ll see social change and true justice. When people say this, I ask them
if this is an idea that they came up with on their own after some research or if
they are blindly repeating what they heard someone else say.
Note that we are not talking about changing your heart to accept
Christ, only the Holy Spirit can do that. We are talking about if laws can
influence your views and change your beliefs and thus bring about behavioral
and social change?
So let’s look at this carefully. Is it true that laws don’t change hearts?
As you know, I am from India, yet for many years I kept refusing to do
the Indian thing, which is, have my parents arrange a marriage for me with a
rich beautiful lady doctor from India. My roommates would look at all the
pictures my mom sent of these pretty, young and rich doctors or scientists and
tell me that I was an idiot. Yet, I could never bring myself to allow them to
arrange a marriage for me. I wanted to fall in love first. 59
59 Note that I am not in any way saying that arranged marriages are a bad idea. My sister had an
arranged marriage and couldn’t be happier. She and her husband are now completely in love and they
both and we all feel that they are perfect for each other.
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