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The Bible and the Ballot: Using Scripture in Political Decisions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians affirm the Bible as our standard of faith and practice. We turn to it to hear God’s voice. But what relevance does the Bible have for the contentious public policy issues we face today? Although the Bible does not always speak explicitly to modern issues, it does give us guiding principles as we think about how we might vote or act as political figures ourselves. The Bible and the...

them to “be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves” (Matt. 10:16). All these passages (and many more) are important to keep in mind (and we will come back to them) as we approach the question of biblical interpretation and public policy. Christians are followers of Jesus but also citizens of a nation-state. How do Christians live shrewdly and innocently with the tension between church and culture? The first step is to recognize that the state is not the church. The error of identifying the
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