How Should Christians Vote?

Born to Win Podcast - with Ronald L. Dart

I have to read a lot in preparation for the Born to Win radio program, but most of what I’m finding to read these days is about politics. I have a feeling that we’re all, you and me, getting a politics overload. I would like to walk away from it, but I don’t think I should. There are some important things we need to think about regarding these people who are asking for our votes. We could very easily fall victim to the law of unintended consequences, and we could wind up with something we really don’t want to have.

No offense, but we don’t want someone like you or me running the country. So let’s make a note of this for starters: None of the people we are watching in the political arena are normal folks like you and me. They are people who are obsessed with power; and by virtue of the fact that they are running for the highest office in the land, they are seeking more power. It was Lord Acton who said it, and it’s become true again and again and again: Power corrupts; and everybody knows that the greater the power, the greater the potential (almost the greater the certainty) of corruption.

Now, that doesn’t mean that you and I can afford to walk away and ignore the whole process—wash our hands and say, It is too corrupt, I don’t want to have anything to do with it, because sometimes we are required to vote for the lesser of two evils. I’m even prepared to say that’s what we have to do all the time. I know that doesn’t seem quite right. Christian folk would like to vote for the good, and we’re tempted to think, Well, if I can’t decide for the good. I just won’t decide at all. But you have to decide. You can’t just walk away from it; and more often than not, refusing to decide is the worst decision of all.