The authority that God has instituted in our context is the citizen.

You know, we trade it in. If you remember that line from the movie The Patriot,

the king a thousand miles away for a thousand kings one mile away, and there's an enormous

amount of authority how to think about our lives together given to everyday citizens, and that

is enabled simply by voting. And Paul says also if you can do some good you

should do it and if you don't do that good it's sin. Well that's John Stone

Street he's one of our guests today sharing about the importance of voting.

This is focused on the family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and John Stone Street and Tim Gagline will encourage us as believers to perform our civic duty and participate and

to vote our values in this really critically important election.

Boy, John, you want to light a keg of dynamite?

This is the way to do it talk about politics and but at the same time we live in a

republic we vote it's part of our citizen right and I would say our citizen duty and we're going to discuss that today.

There's something like 25 million Christians who do not vote.

Some of them think it's kind of an area that we'll just leave to others because it's sully.

You know, it's a little dirty politics.

It's hard, yeah.

And so we step back and say, you know, we'll let others handle that.

But I would want to encourage you as a listener and a viewer

let's seriously consider where we're at and what we need to think about and I'm not talking about

party politics I've said from the beginning I wish all politicians Democrat and Republicans

would recognize the importance that we're made in God's image and that we need

to protect life because I think it has such downstream impact for people and for the

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