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Real Christianity

Does the Bible Call Christians to Vote?

Real Christianity

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Jesus, Christian, God, Christianity, Theology, Bible, House Church, Home Church, Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Scripture, Church

4.97.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As Christians, our duty is to Christ alone. But as humans living in a civil government what is our responsibility to participate? In other words, does the Bible permit Christians to be passive in our civic duties or does it call us to engage? In this episode of Real Christianity, pastor Dale Partridge examines several biblical principles in an effort to present helpful answers to these important questions.

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge.

0:12.7

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0:18.7

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0:29.5

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0:40.5

Alright guys, if you're an American, in less than one week, we have probably the most important

0:46.4

election of our lifetime.

0:49.2

And there are many Christians who are saying, well, you can't vote for, name your candidate

0:55.9

if you're a Christian.

0:56.9

You can't vote for Biden if you're a Christian.

0:58.3

You can't vote for Trump if you're a Christian.

1:01.5

But then we have another group of Christians who are saying, well, both candidates are terrible,

1:06.1

so I'm not going to vote at all.

1:08.6

As Christians, how are we to view the act of voting?

1:12.4

Is this something that we are responsible to do?

1:14.7

What does the Bible say about voting?

1:18.6

We're going to be discussing this and more.

1:21.0

But before we begin, I just want to make a quick announcement about ultimate marriage.

1:24.8

We're coming up here to the Christmas season.

1:29.8

And this is also a great time to mark the beginning of working on your marriage.

1:36.7

In January 1 is a great time to say, hey, we're going to really work on our marriage this

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