For Constitution Day: Christian Citizenship Bible Study
By Angela Wittman - Posted at For Christ's Crown and Covenant!
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. - Hosea 4:6
While reviewing and updating some previous posts, I came across a teaching on Christian citizenship that I believe is an essential lesson many Christians might not have access to.
Let me begin by sharing the setting I was in when receiving this lesson: I was part of a Bible study that had begun as a possible OPC church plant in my local community. When we found there was not enough local interest in the OPC, we continued the study under the leadership of Pastor Ray Morton of the Sparta (Illinois) Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA).
At the time I was also very politically active and serving as an officer in the Constitution Party of Illinois. I had always believed Christians should be "salt and light" in the community, including civil matters, and I greatly benefited from this sound teaching. Christian citizenship is something I had not been taught in church, yet it is an essential, practical and historical truth about Christianity and how we relate to government that all Christians should be taught.
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV)
Please be blessed to search the scriptures while you participate in this lesson. ...
Read more here...
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. - Hosea 4:6
While reviewing and updating some previous posts, I came across a teaching on Christian citizenship that I believe is an essential lesson many Christians might not have access to.
Let me begin by sharing the setting I was in when receiving this lesson: I was part of a Bible study that had begun as a possible OPC church plant in my local community. When we found there was not enough local interest in the OPC, we continued the study under the leadership of Pastor Ray Morton of the Sparta (Illinois) Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA).
At the time I was also very politically active and serving as an officer in the Constitution Party of Illinois. I had always believed Christians should be "salt and light" in the community, including civil matters, and I greatly benefited from this sound teaching. Christian citizenship is something I had not been taught in church, yet it is an essential, practical and historical truth about Christianity and how we relate to government that all Christians should be taught.
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV)
Please be blessed to search the scriptures while you participate in this lesson. ...
Read more here...
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