To
Register to Vote, click OperationVote.com.
Every Christian has
a Biblical requirement to select God-fearing leaders (vote!) and
pray for those in authority, inviting His help and presence. The
OperationVote.com website provides links to voter registration information,
promotional packets to help your church in its non-partisan voter
registration efforts, etc. Also,
visit
IVoteValues.org
for resources about why Christians should vote.
Background: Our
Basic Civic Duties Required to Preserve Liberty for Gospel Purposes
1. History reveals that America's
Christian foundation is the source of liberty for all Americans!
(According to the Mayflower
Institute, 80-to-85% of all missionaries and bulk of humanitarian
aid to the world in the Name of Christ over the past 200 years
have come from America. America’s liberty is worth
preserving as God has used America as a major fountainhead of
the Gospel to the world!)
2.
To preserve America's Christian foundation, liberty, and the open
door for the Gospel, we have a Biblical mandate to select God-fearing
leaders (Ex. 18:21, II Sam. 23:3) and pray for those in authority
(I Tim. 2:1-2), inviting God's help and presence (II Chr. 7:14).
3. Public
Awareness Ministries Groups pray and work together locally
(city-by-city) to fulfill the Biblical mandate to select God-fearing
leaders (via non-partisan voter registration in combination with
local voter guide production) who preserve America's Christian
foundation, liberty, and the open door for the Gospel.
Before REGISTERING
TO VOTE, please review the one-page
2004 Party Platform Summary
(what the parties say about themselves ), THEN compare
each party platform against the Biblical standard and register
for the party that best reflects these Biblical principles (i.e.,
advancing leaders that are: God-fearing, pro-life, pro-family).
It's also important to remember that
each candidate who runs as a member of a certain political party
may OR may not adhere to the party platform, therefore, we need
to know each candidate individually via prayerfully analysis of
voter guides.
Voter Guides
Approaching Election Day,
please prayerfully review non-partisan Voter
Guides for information about the candidates and their values.
Public Awareness Ministries
groups may choose to produce and distribute non-partisan local
voter guides because:
1. The local offices directly affect us the most
AND are the offices that WE can most impact
2. The local offices serve as a springboard to
higher office
3. Christians report that they have the least
information about local offices and that local voter
guides definitely help in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to select
God-fearing leaders at the entry level.