This is not a political blog and I have no intent on it becoming one.  My intent is not to set one party against the other, but to put forth some helpful article that will cause us as Christians to think biblically about what is going on and what is at stake.

As Americans politics play into our lives and religion.  We have rights and responsibilities.  John Piper wrote a helpful article that I believe will challenge us to exercise our right to vote and help us as Christians to keep this upcoming election in perspective with God’s Word.

Voting is like marrying and crying and laughing and buying. We should do it, but only as if we were not doing it. That’s because “the present form of this world is passing away” and, in God’s eyes, “the time has grown very short.” Here’s the way Paul puts it:

The appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:29-31)

It is important that we, as Christians, do not forget about the moral issues at stake in the upcoming election.   Randy Alcorn has a thought provoking article on whether or not Abortion should still be an issue Christians keep as a priority when voting.

Every Christian should take these teachings seriously. Is the unborn an innocent human being? If you claim to be prolife in the historical meaning of the word, then your answer is yes. Is abortion the shedding of innocent blood, the taking of human life created in the image of God? If you say you are prolife, your answer must be yes. (Please do not redefine the meaning of the word prolife and say “I’m prolife” if you’re really not.)

So, is the candidate’s stand on the issue of shedding innocent blood important enough to disqualify him as a candidate? Yes. While a single issue can’t qualify a candidate, it can disqualify him.

He also links a video that is graphic but is helpful in understanding how much life is in an unborn baby and how many are being destroyed/killed.

 As Senator Hilary Clinton come to town to campaign in the historic Wigwam, it brings to mind the upcoming election.  While choosing a candidate may be difficult in this election, Russ Moore recently called attention to a shift in young evangelicals concern about the issue of Abortion.  He called it Fetus Fatigue and quoted from a philosopher by the name of Douglas Groothuis.

Groothuis writes:

“It appears that millions of evangelicals, especially younger ones, are experiencing fetus fatigue. They are tired of the abortion issue taking center stage; it is time to move on to newer, hipper things–the sort of issues that excite Bono: aid to Africa, the environment, and cool tattoos. Abortion has been legal since they were born; it is the old guard that gets exercised about millions of abortions over the years. So, let’s not worry that Barak Obama and Hillary are pro-choice. That is a secondary issue. After all, neither could do that much damage regarding this issue.

“Evangelicals (if that word has any meaning), for God’s sake, please wake up and remember the acres of tiny corpses you cannot see. Yes, the Christian social vision is holistic. We should endeavor to restore shalom to this beleaguered planet. That includes helping Africa, preserving the environment, and much more. However, the leading domestic moral issue remains the value of helpless human life. Since Roe v. Wade, approximately 50 million unborn humans have been killed through abortion. Stalin said, ‘One death is a tragedy. A million dead is a statistic.’ Too many are now Stalinists on abortion. The numbers mean nothing, apparently.