Welcome to Leadership Now with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media, the Fight, Laf Feast Network, and wherever else you get your podcasts.

Aaron has served as a pastor, a chaplain, denominational leader, professor, and writer, and he has a desire to help others think Christianly about all of life.

On this show, we discussed the nuts and bolts of theology,

church life, ethics, apologetics, culture, politics, and other issues to help you lead better now.

So today I am your host. My name is Jesse LaFranbois, and last week we introduced our new mini-series, or perhaps it's going to end up being not-so-mini-series, talking about Abraham Kuiper and his political theory and his political philosophy. So if you didn't get a chance to check out last week's episode, I would for sure recommend that. Gave a really good introduction

into who Abraham Kuiper is. And we talked a little bit about his view of authority.

So he's obviously had a profound effect on how Christians see politics. And even though he's been

dead for a century, a lot of what he has said is still very applicable and true for

today. And for those reasons, he's very worthy of our consideration for this discussion.

As a Dutch pastor, theologian, prime minister, he's helped Christians shape a very robust

view of Christianity and politics. So today our topic is going to be law.

We're going to be talking about law.

So Kuyper believed that the government had the right and the obligation to make laws, but

by what standard exactly?

Great question.

I think many Christians struggle with answering that, and it's because they don't want to impose Christian values on non-Christians. They have this notion that if they do that, we're somehow imposing the gospel or creating fake Christians. And so we have a void in our culture in that Christians are largely disengaged from

politics and certainly disengage from making laws.

Many Christians have strong opinions on what laws should be in place and what laws should

not be in place.

And we might at times picket or protest or write letters to our members of parliament

in opposition to a particular law.

But then we just retreat to our churches and do nothing as further laws are presented.

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