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A bit more on CCL, and politics…

I have to say that I agree with a lot of what the guys at CCL are saying. I do agree with Sandlin when he says that if we want a godly president, “we�ll need to change the culture so a rather wide consensus supports these candidates.” He says that we should be “working zealously for pervasive Christian influence in popular music, education, technology, media, movies, and elsewhere in the culture. Then one day capturing the White House will be easy.” I couldn’t agree more. He says that we Christians will only gain the prize of cultural reclaimation “by difficult cultural spadework � fostering godly families, building strong churches, walking the precincts for state and local politics, supporting Christian artists and other cultural fulcrums and so on.” Amen, again.

And, so long as he is talking about choosing between Bush and Kerry (which the context indicates), I agree with Monte Wilson when he says “If you don�t know who to vote for at this stage of the game, you are not being discriminating: you have asparagus where everyone else has brains.”

But none of this convinces me that voting Republican is the proper thing for a faithful christian to do. I’m not saying it is unfaithful for a Christian to vote republican either. To argue dogmatically one way or another on that issue, I believe, misses the entire point. The thing we Christians really need to get into our thick skulls is something that, ironically, Sandlin expresses wonderfully – that “our hope is not in politics but in the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”