Christian Citizenship Ministry: Why Voting Matters

Friday, January 13, 2012

Why Voting Matters

Who picks almost all our court judges? Politicians.

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We are here to help equip Christians to Be Informed, Go Vote and Get Involved. This is a NON-PARTISAN Bible based ministry. We make every attempt to provide accurate information for each major candidate or ballot issue during election years. We are frequently updating this site and hope to offer you the best tools possible. Please leave as many comments to as many posts. Your prayer, your communication and your involvement is vital to the success of our mission.

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Abiding by IRS guidelines

What are the guidelines for what a pastor can say from the pulpit about state and federal elections?

As the representative of the church, a pastor can't endorse or oppose a particular candidate without violating current IRS guidelines. But as a pastor, you certainly can talk about the issues. You can speak to any topics that are at issue in a particular campaign, without naming candidates.

Churches can allow distribution of neutral, non-partisan voter guides. You can also encourage your congregation to exercise their constitutional privilege to vote.

The pastor as an individual in a conversation is not prohibited from naming the particular candidate that he is voting for. He has that constitutional right, just like any other US citizen.

Click here for much more detailed information on the IRS guidelines.

* This information was taken from the Alliance Defense Fund website.

100% "Voting Politics" - Regularly voting in elections.

25% "Campaign Politics" - Volunteering for campaigns (i.e. helping in campaign offices, making phone calls at a telephone bank, passing out literature, donating to a campaign, etc.)

10% "Party Politics" - Volunteers who accept the responsibility of working in the party of their choice (i.e. precinct committeemen, officers in county, state or local party organizations, etc.). These members become an invaluable source of information about candidates and issues. Some may even become elected officials at the local, state or federal level.

These goals are taken from "Stand and Be Counted" by Robert Dugan.

Ministry Teams

PRAYER TEAM
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: praying for God's guidance, our church, our leaders and our country.

ISSUES TEAM
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: compiling information on current events and issues, the positions of candidates and current leaders on those issues and their voting records.

VOTING TEAM
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: conducting voter registration drives, helping with absentee ballot applications, helping people find their polling places and any other voting related questions.

DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: developing and executing the promotion of this ministry within the church, outreach outside our church, and recording progress towards our church involvement goals.

If you are interested in becoming a part of our ministry in any way please e-mail us at ChristianCitizenship@gmail.com. Thank you!

Francis Grimke

If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will . . . be . . . from inward corruption - from the disregard of right principles . . . from losing sight of the fact that "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but that sin is a reproach to any people" [Proverbs 14:34]. . . .[T]he secession of the Southern States in 1860 was a small matter with the secession of the Union itself from the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, in the Golden Rule, in the Ten Commandments, in the Sermon on the Mount. Unless we hold, and hold firmly to these great fundamental principles of righteousness, . . . our Union . . . will be "only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

James Garfield

"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces."

Noah Webster

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, "just men who will rule in the fear of God." The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be sqandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."

Friday, January 13, 2012

Why Voting Matters

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