Wanted: A Speaker With Spiritual Values and Executive Experience
I believe and pray the next speaker of the House should be a spiritual person with executive experience, one who takes a divine perspective of the turbulent world we live in and applies principle over process.
Why is it important that we find a spiritual person, you might ask? The answer is simple. The men and women who founded America had a biblical understanding and wisdom in obedience to God. Long ago, American values, customs, traditions and standards were saturated with His wisdom found in Scripture. The Founders established a biblically based culture with the Bible as the fixed point in order to judge.
Look at the 13 original colonies, which established Christianity as the official religion of America in each of their charters. American exceptionalism did not come as a hodgepodge of ideas, thrown together at random, but was poured by the American Founders, establishing a Christian nation. Virtue and righteousness are key components of freedom. The Founders reinforced that time and time again:
- “Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country” (George Washington).
- “Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society” (George Washington).
- “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morals are indispensable supports” (George Washington).
- “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (John Adams).
American exceptionalism was the byproduct of the lives of the outstanding men and women of character, who had submitted themselves to His teaching, and accumulated personal, spiritual and moral knowledge found only in wisdom’s words in Scripture.
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David Lane is an influential evangelical political activist and founder of the American Renewal Project, a nonprofit that is working to train pastors across the country to run for office.
