Christian unity and the 2016 presidential election on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to

provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

We are getting very close. In just over a week, Americans will go to the polls to cast their

ballot for the president of the United States.

This has engendered a lot of conversation, as American politics always does in general,

and as presidential elections always do in particular. But my concern on the podcast this

week is not first who Americans would elect to be their next president.

My concern this week is whether Christians can love one another well when the election is over.

And the difficulty with Christian unity has to do with the campaign of Donald J. Trump.

There have been very few issues in my life that I have seen cause so much division and public

strife among Christians of all areas. And there has never in my lifetime

been so much division among Christians around a presidential campaign. But the candidacy of Donald

Trump has created a massive amount of division. The line of division is drawn between Christians who say they will never vote for

Trump and Christians who say that we must vote for Trump if we are to be faithful Christians

in the world and faithful Christians in the process of American national politics.

That dividing line and the positions on either side of it is creating massive problems. I am personally aware of Christians on

church staffs that are divided by this issue and have seen conflict among their pastoral team on this issue.

I am very aware of families who are experiencing disagreement.

You've got the family members who say you can never vote for Trump,

and the Christian family members who say we just have to vote for Trump.

And all of us have seen the public disagreement

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