The Great Challenge – The Law of God and Public Policy

The Great Challenge
The Law of God and Public Policy

We must build a good and just society from the foundation.

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 1 Timothy 1:1, 2

We will only be putting band-aids on an open, oozing sore if all we ever do is augur for decisions from legislatures and courts that reflect our understanding of truth applied to the public square. Yes, of course, we must struggle in this arena continually.

But the great challenge facing us today is the challenge of which foundation shall support our nation’s policies in the years to come. Apologists for a secular worldview are busily at work, reconstructing every aspect of life in our society on a foundation other than that which our forebears laid, a foundation which, increasingly, is not friendly to the institutions and freedoms of the Gospel.

While we still have freedom to proclaim the Gospel and to argue—winsomely and respectfully—for the Biblical view of truth, we must prepare ourselves and encourage one another to take up this task day by day, through every open door of opportunity, with a view to exposing the folly of unbelief and demonstrating the firmness of a Biblical approach to truth.

For a good society must be a truthful society, or it will be no society worth living in at all.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T. M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.