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Why Christians Need to Vote - Steve Feazel
Every election, Christians face a choice: show up and vote, or stay home and let others decide. Scripture and history both point to the same answer. Christians carry a stewardship duty to vote, and here's why.
1. Honor Our Christian Heritage
Christianity shaped the moral conscience of this nation from the very beginning. The founders didn't separate faith from public life; they built the nation on it.
John Adams put it plainly: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
The Declaration of Independence does not anchor our rights in government but declares they are unalienable rights from God, our Creator. Religion and politics have mixed from our nation’s founding.
Scripture affirms this connection between faith and nationhood: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 33:12).
The Congressional Record from March 27, 1854, confirms this founding sentiment: at the time the Constitution and its amendments were adopted, Americans universally believed the government should encourage Christianity. That was the founders' religion, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.
The Supreme Court agreed. In the 1892 case Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, the justices ruled 9–0 that America is a "Christian nation."
When Christians vote, they help preserve this heritage instead of letting it slip away.
2. Fulfill Our Christian Mission
Jesus commanded us: "Go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19). We can't fulfill that mission in a vacuum. We need laws that protect religious freedom and a culture that doesn't treat the Christian message with hostility.
Ministries also require funding. We want our resources going to churches and ministries, not disappearing into higher taxes that grow government instead and entice fraud.
When Christians vote for candidates who oppose biblical standards, or when they simply stay home, they work against this mission rather than for it.
3. Protect for Our Children
Jesus took the care of children seriously. He warned: "If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck" (Mark 9:42).
June 25, 1962, marked one of the darkest days in American history: the day prayer was said to not legal in our schools because of a misguided Supreme Court decision.
Since then, many schools have taught children ideas contrary to biblical truth—evolution presented as settled fact, permissive attitudes in sex ed, transgender activity promoted as normal, the gay lifestyle morally acceptable, Critical Race Theory, and pornographic literature in the library.
Our tax dollars fund these schools. We cannot stand by while that money undermines the very faith we want our children to embrace.
In 1951, when I started first grade, prayer was legal in schools and pornography was not. Today, that's reversed. Christian silence bears real responsibility for that change.
4. Stand against Evil
Scripture calls us to action: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). That calling extends to the ballot box.
Open borders brought real consequences: increased crime, overstressed social and medical systems, a surge in sex trafficking, drugs flowing in that kill, and a national security risk as terrorists slip through. In 2023 alone, drug overdoses claimed 70,000 lives. It took eight years for us to lose 56,000 in Viet Nam.
Some liberal candidates support transgender surgeries performed on minors—a form of child abuse. Others support legalizing drug use and prostitution.
Congress even failed our most vulnerable. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would have required care for infants who survive a botched abortion. Forty-one Democrat senators were all that was needed to vote to kill it, denying basic health care for these newborns. The 14th Amendment says anyone born in our nation is an American citizen. It does not say, “Except for those who survive and abortion.” A legislator would have to ignore or purposely violate the Constitution to vote no on this Act.
We need to remember it’s just a short step from anti-Semitic to anti-Christian.
Christians who vote push back against these evils instead of letting them advance unchecked.
5. Speak Truth to Power
Throughout Scripture, God's people challenged corrupt power directly. Nathan confronted David regarding his affair with Bathsheba. Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, who were propped up by the evil rule of Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 18:20–40).
Jesus himself confronted the corrupt leaders of the Sanhedrin, who exploited their positions for personal gain instead of serving the people.
When the authorities tried to silence Peter and John, the disciples refused: "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:19–20).
Today, we speak truth to power through our votes.
Our Stewardship Duty
The Republican Party isn't perfect, but its policies align far more closely with biblical standards than the Democratic Party's do. It also stands closer to the founding fathers' original intent and their reverence for the Christian faith.
Voting is a matter of stewardship. Christians who vote protect and advance their faith. Christians who skip that responsibility, or who vote against biblical values, fail to honor the Lord Jesus Christ with that stewardship.
Colossians 3:17 sums up the standard: "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus."
Christians need to Vote like it matters, because it really does.
Steve Feazel