Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Michael Farris:
Ken, this week you’ve challenged us to seriously consider our civic responsibility before God. For the listeners who want to get involved but are unsure how to get started, what do you suggest?

Ken Connor:
Well, I think we ought to start out first of all, Mike, on our knees. We ought to be praying. We ought to be confessing our sins and acknowledging that we’ve not lived up to the obligations that Scripture imposes on us as the people of God. We ought to be on our knees praying for government. The Scripture says we have an obligation to pray for our government; we ought to be doing that. We ought to be asking for wisdom and discernment. The Scripture promises that the Lord will give us wisdom in making decisions, and I think we ought to be praying for future elections. We have an obligation, I believe, to become informed. We need to understand the positions of candidates on the various issues, and understand and identify those candidates that will advance the cause of justice in our society. And then I believe we have an obligation to vote—we have an obligation to speak out through the ballot box to select people who we think will most nearly reflect God’s standards of righteousness and justice within our culture.

Mike:
Ken, thank you so much for joining us this week.