Church hosting election season challenge
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November 8, 2012 |
In the tradition of early American political and
religious life, Providence Bible Presbyterian
Church in Bonners Ferry will host an Election
Season Challenge from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday,
November 9, that will feature messages from the
Bible addressed to elected officials and
citizens regarding their mutual duties and
obligations.
All members of the community are invited to the
church at 6530 Washington Street, just off Main
Street at the top of South Hill.
Elected and appointed civic officials alike at
every level of our government will receive
invitations and are urged to be in attendance.
Several pastors from the area will address the
assembly. Refreshments will be served and there
will be time for getting to know your officials
afterwards. Messages will be recorded and made
available to the public at no charge.
The Election Day sermon tradition has nearly
been lost in our day and age of misunderstanding
regarding the so-called “doctrine of the
separation of Church and State.”
Inhabitants of New England during the colonial
period and beyond would be incredulous at the
current reticence of the Church to speak to the
culture. Not only did pastors in each town
preach every Sunday, but in keeping with the
conviction that all human activity falls under
the jurisdiction of God's Word, sermons were
preached at significant public events;
anniversaries, thanksgiving days, fast days, and
election days.
Politicians listened carefully to sermons that
urged them to the faithful discharge of their
duties before the God who sovereignly rules and
placed them in their positions. Citizens were
likewise called upon to resist tyranny in all
its forms.
Those sermons were also printed in newspapers
for all to read, and often distributed in
pamphlet form as well. In all civic actions,
citizens and rulers were charged to promote
virtue, suppress vice, and support people of
"proven wisdom, integrity, justice, and
holiness."
All citizens would still do well to measure
their actions by these criteria.
Please call Pastor Len Pine at Providence BPC,
(208) 267-3327, for more information.
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