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Our Government "Offering"

by Kathy Brown on June 11th, 2009 | 2 comments

 In Chuck Colson's recent "Breakpoint" article, this conclusion was made:  "But as the government grows, it elbows out the church and other voluntary associatons."  As Christian churches are replaced by government relief efforts, the essential gospel message is changed into a very different salvation story. 

Many Christians still vote for more government schools, welfare programs and bailouts.  Often their intentions are good, but they seem unaware that with tax supported endeavors comes a heap of ideas bought and paid for.  (Foundational Presupposition Chart)

• Someone makes decisions about how the money is spent.  It doesn't just "land" in the lap of the needy.  Those people who make the decisions have a worldview.  Obviously, their perception is that government can rescue society, not faith-based enterprises (public funding is not allowed to go to Christian-based organizations.)   The "escalator myth" (humans can work their way to eutopia) is their secular worldview. From a Biblical perspective, the world systems do not address underlying issues; and without Christ as the foundation of relief, any favorable results are temporary. 
• Those who receive someone else's income also have a worldview.  They are entitled to foster it, distructive or not.  Bad behavior, immorality and poor decision-making are inconsequential to their funding.  This falls in line with secular thinking that right and wrong are relative and are not at the root of social problems.  Sin is not in the discussion of solving difficult struggles with families, finances or life-style, nor is there much for uncovering the lies that have destroyed them.

Government spending is not "neutral", as some Christians believe.  Removing God, as the incorrect interpretation of "separation of church and state" has done, does not result in a vacant value system.  In the place of God, man slips onto the throne of authority.  This results in a religious view called secular humanism.  For many who adhere to humanism, the government becomes a vehicle to advance their causes.  Their  "church" becomes the government and  taxes are their "offering".   This secularism is not the perspective of everyone, however; and some object to the ideas and practices undertaken by this huge operation that confiscates their funds. 

Mr. Colson includes in his post a study that shows there is an inverse relationship between religious observance and welfare spending.  It may be noted here that welfare spending is a religious observance, but not the kind that a Christian should be voting for.

Tags: Breakpoint, Colson, taxes, and morality

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