Does The Bible Inform And Determine Your Values?
July 18, 2017
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Some time ago I was speaking to a friend on the Hill whom we all know. He said, "Ralph, you have almost convinced Congressman_______ that Scripture is inspired by God. But he realizes that if he agrees with you, then the Bible will become the final arbiter for his life and policy decisions…. You've got him thinking!" He went on to encourage me to continue to work through this with him.
What follows is the case for the inspiration of the New Testament; and as illustrated above, this study has huge implications: Where you come down on inspiration will ultimately determine whether you are the judge of Scripture or Scripture is the judge of you.
May God bless and buoy your confidence in His Book as a result of this week's study.
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Old Testament Israel was a theocracy – a nation in which God’s people and the State were one, but the New Testament is clear that is not the way nations should be today.
Matthew 22:21 is among many Scriptures that support the institutional separation of The Church from Government:
“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
The Bible teaches that there should be an institutional separation between Church and State, but not an influential separation.
This important distinction is examined in Understanding the Importance of The Separation of Church and State, the Bible study that Ralph Drollinger will teach this week to members of President Donald Trump’s White House Cabinet, Senators, and Representatives in Washington, D.C.
We invite you to read this study along with the leaders of our nation, and learn what the Bible says is the most important contribution the Church can make to the State that influences the way nations are governed.
July 11, 2017
The importance of truth in the Capital Community cannot be understated. Notice in this week's Bible study the following Proverbs that depict the various benefits of being a man or woman of truth. When you contemplate the benefits of being truthful, versus the detriments of lying or bearing false witness, it proves motivational to say the least.
July 4, 2017
Given the nature of the capital community, many people live away from their home environments for regular, extended periods of time. The temptation for sexual sin is ever present — and I have seen too many legislators, staff and lobbyists fall prey to it. Accordingly, here are some key biblical insights related to staying sexually pure in a surreal environment like the U.S. Capital.
June 27, 2017
Proverbs 14:34 contains a sound political maxim, the simplicity of which is often overlooked: Personal righteousness in the population — both in citizens and leaders — is the single most important commodity that any country can possess! This virtue, states Solomon, is preeminent to everything else, because: Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people....
June 20, 2017
This study examines one of the several wrong views of Church and State: The idea that believers should be involved in evangelism only and not politics.
The short of what's wrong with this view is this: if every believer adhered to this somewhat popular Evangelical teaching, there would be no believers in office! There would be no salt and light influence in a representative form of government.
Listen on...
June 13, 2017
The State is dependent on godly leaders, but the State is not in the business of manufacturing them: that is the role of the Church.
When the Church concentrates its efforts on evangelizing and discipling office holders, those officeholders who possess a Christian world view are in a position to affect much change!
June 6, 2017
This week we will examine in detail Ephesians 4 verses 1-3. Our nation desperately needs the believers in political leadership to be in unity! What results from a persevering unity can and will extremely bless our nation!
Listen on, my friend.
May 30, 2017
This week we will examine all that the Bible book of Proverbs has to say about anger.
If you struggle with this sin, and who doesn’t, or you hang with those who do, then this study is for you...
May 23, 2017
In today's out-of-control competitive, combative environment of public elections, it is almost guaranteed that many false things will be said about you — and it is all too easy to end-up carrying baggage as a result. How do you handle such things?
Forgiveness can be a difficult discipline to practice, but it is an indispensable character quality that must be continually cultivated over a lifetime. To be unforgiving is to pander to the old nature which Scripture tells the believer he should lay aside; to be unforgiving is to feed the desires of the flesh.
Let's examine what the Scriptures teach about this essential biblical quality — and especially whether we need to forgive someone who is unrepentant.
May 16, 2017
When the Institution of the Family flounders in its primary responsibility to train up a child in the way he should go (Proverbs 22:6) the State is eventually overwhelmed with insurmountable problems.
The State has a much easier job of maintaining civility in society when parents lovingly discipline their children at a young age. One might say that parents oversee the manufacturing plant of a good society. They are God’s first remedy in a fallen world, His intended means of curtailing evil in a nation. The book of Proverbs has much to say to parents about how to raise up a child.
Read on my friend.
May 8, 2017
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