Increasing Voter Turnout by Christians

by Ken Konkel

Efforts to encourage conservative Christians to vote is a major task.  I understand, though I do not agree with the sentiment by far too many who believe it is not necessary to vote or do not believe in voting because it is all in God’s control.

Below are a few thoughts that may be helpful (or you may disagree) to persuade the aforementioned community to participate in our Republic’s democratic process. 

Yes, God is in control, but we must be gainfully employed to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves and families.

A farmer is provided soil, seed, and water by the Almighty, but he or she must still know how to work the land - plow, cultivate, plant the seed, and apply effective use of water whether by irrigation or for the dry land farmer whose reliance is on direct snowfall and rain - to produce a crop.

I don’t believe these good folks leave their doors unlocked, because it is obvious it would leave them extremely vulnerable to bad actors who would be very tempted to enter their home, steal, vandalize, and/or harm anyone in that home.  God is in control, but you must still lock your doors!

These conservative Christians will acknowledge he/she must be gainfully employed and the farmer must work the land; yet when it comes to voting they deny the same principle, i.e. you must be proactive to generate a certain outcome.  Those who fail to vote could be responsible directly or indirectly with the wrong parties gaining power that can negatively affect all freedom loving people or at a minimum just plain burden their families with high taxation and high inflation.  Some, unfortunately, desire that evil take over, because in their minds it will hasten the return of our Lord and Savior.  I have an issue with this line of thinking for a couple of reasons: (1) it is assuming God will be influenced by man’s desire, which in my opinion is insulting to God since only He knows when his Son will be returning based on his wisdom and not man’s; and (2) hoping for hell on earth to expedite our Savior’s return does not necessarily mean the last days will be upon us or are pending since hell on earth has previously existed.  Examples include the Dark Ages, those who lived under Soviet Communism, and Hitler’s regime without the return of Christ.

Christ could return while reading this email, the next few minutes, next few hours, tomorrow, later this year, next year, next decade, next century or centuries later.  In the interim, Christians should be praying of course for His return and for our leaders to do what is right, yet also do what can be done to keep out evil and fight to remove it where it does exist. This includes taking advantage of the ballot box.Efforts to encourage conservative Christians to vote is a major task.  I understand, though I do not agree with the sentiment by far too many who believe it is not necessary to vote or do not believe in voting because it is all in God’s control.

Below are a few thoughts that may be helpful (or you may disagree) to persuade the aforementioned community to participate in our Republic’s democratic process. 

Yes, God is in control, but we must be gainfully employed to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves and families.

A farmer is provided soil, seed, and water by the Almighty, but he or she must still know how to work the land - plow, cultivate, plant the seed, and apply effective use of water whether by irrigation or for the dry land farmer whose reliance is on direct snowfall and rain - to produce a crop.

I don’t believe these good folks leave their doors unlocked, because it is obvious it would leave them extremely vulnerable to bad actors who would be very tempted to enter their home, steal, vandalize, and/or harm anyone in that home.  God is in control, but you must still lock your doors!

These conservative Christians will acknowledge he/she must be gainfully employed and the farmer must work the land; yet when it comes to voting they deny the same principle, i.e. you must be proactive to generate a certain outcome.  Those who fail to vote could be responsible directly or indirectly with the wrong parties gaining power that can negatively affect all freedom loving people or at a minimum just plain burden their families with high taxation and high inflation.  Some, unfortunately, desire that evil take over, because in their minds it will hasten the return of our Lord and Savior.  I have an issue with this line of thinking for a couple of reasons: (1) it is assuming God will be influenced by man’s desire, which in my opinion is insulting to God since only He knows when his Son will be returning based on his wisdom and not man’s; and (2) hoping for hell on earth to expedite our Savior’s return does not necessarily mean the last days will be upon us or are pending since hell on earth has previously existed.  Examples include the Dark Ages, those who lived under Soviet Communism, and Hitler’s regime without the return of Christ.

Christ could return while reading this email, the next few minutes, next few hours, tomorrow, later this year, next year, next decade, next century or centuries later.  In the interim, Christians should be praying of course for His return and for our leaders to do what is right, yet also do what can be done to keep out evil and fight to remove it where it does exist. This includes taking advantage of the ballot box.democratic process. 

Yes, God is in control, but we must be gainfully employed to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves and families.

A farmer is provided soil, seed, and water by the Almighty, but he or she must still know how to work the land - plow, cultivate, plant the seed, and apply effective use of water whether by irrigation or for the dry land farmer whose reliance is on direct snowfall and rain - to produce a crop.

I don’t believe these good folks leave their doors unlocked, because it is obvious it would leave them extremely vulnerable to bad actors who would be very tempted to enter their home, steal, vandalize, and/or harm anyone in that home.  God is in control, but you must still lock your doors!

These conservative Christians will acknowledge he/she must be gainfully employed and the farmer must work the land; yet when it comes to voting they deny the same principle, i.e. you must be proactive to generate a certain outcome.  Those who fail to vote could be responsible directly or indirectly with the wrong parties gaining power that can negatively affect all freedom loving people or at a minimum just plain burden their families with high taxation and high inflation.  Some, unfortunately, desire that evil take over, because in their minds it will hasten the return of our Lord and Savior.  I have an issue with this line of thinking for a couple of reasons: (1) it is assuming God will be influenced by man’s desire, which in my opinion is insulting to God since only He knows when his Son will be returning based on his wisdom and not man’s; and (2) hoping for hell on earth to expedite our Savior’s return does not necessarily mean the last days will be upon us or are pending since hell on earth has previously existed.  Examples include the Dark Ages, those who lived under Soviet Communism, and Hitler’s regime without the return of Christ.

Christ could return while reading this email, the next few minutes, next few hours, tomorrow, later this year, next year, next decade, next century or centuries later.  In the interim, Christians should be praying of course for His return and for our leaders to do what is right, yet also do what can be done to keep out evil and fight to remove it where it does exist.  This includes taking advantage of the ballot box.