Posted on 06/05/2021 2:47:36 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
A PARTICIPATORY REPUBLIC.
By the Providence and blessing of Almighty God, the United States was founded as a Constitutional Republic, and as a Participatory Republic. Our Baptist forefathers, after experiencing more than a century of persecution in the Colonies, did participate in the new Republic by their witness in writing and personal communications with presidents, members of Congress, and other statesmen. The annals are replete with the record. Whole libraries can be filled with the history of Christian participation.
Out of many resources available, we recommend the complete library of the Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE) in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Wallbuilders in Aledo, Texas.
For individually bound texts, you might start with (books) AMERICA'S GOD AND COUNTRY by William J. Federer, and THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE CIVIL INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES by Benjamin F. Morris.
The Baptist Committee of Correspondence was established to help promote a BAPTIST TESTIMONY AND WITNESS to elected representatives . . . the people who make our laws. It is the God of the Bible who "determined the bounds [our] habitation" (Acts 17:26; etc.), and since we inhabit a Participatory Republic, we are in obedience to God to, like our Baptist forefathers in the 18th and 19th centuries, boldly PARTICIPATE IN THE REPUBLIC with a witness of the Gospel of the Grace of God, and the principles of Holy Scripture.
No Christian is abandoning his duty to the Gospel and souls, who labors to win the souls of those who represent us in our national and state legislative bodies, and to stand for Bible truth in all concerns before them.
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