The Down-Ballot Report: The Insights & Impacts
Sept. 18, 2026
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: George Barna
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/18/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello, and welcome to our monthly focus on culture, values, and biblical worldview with returning guest Dr. George Barna. He’s no stranger to this program, but just for those who may not know, he’s a professor at Arizona Christian University as well as director of research at the Cultural Research Center there at Arizona Christian University. Now, today we’re going to examine the results of a landmark new study conducted by George, Dr. George Barna, on behalf, not of the Cultural Research Center, but of another entity, AFA, American Family Association, Action, and I Voter Guide. I Voter Guide, both of those you are listening to me right now, you’re familiar because we’ve talked about both of them and involved to some degree here in the program. Now, the title I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation is this, the Down Ballot Report: The Insights and the Impacts. And we’ll explain what that means in a moment.
But every one of you listening to me right now, you do know, I know, you know, the importance of voting and that I’m going to put in there that while not a command, because you’re not going to find it anywhere in scripture, thou shalt vote, because it’s not there, but it is a constitutionally granted privilege and for that we should be grateful. Also, as such, it becomes a citizen duty, which we should exercise with due diligence and very prayerful care. And though never intended as such by our founders, highly visible federal elections like President and Congress, which are fueled by massive amounts of money. For instance, $15.9 billion, mostly special interest money, was spent just in the last 2024 election alone. And that money outspent by over three times the total amount spent across all 50 states on state and local elections. So it had and has a profound influence.
Yet the reality is state and local elections are still just as critical, even though the federal government operating way beyond constitutional boundaries, and it has been for a long time, and state governments of which I served for almost 20 years here in Pennsylvania, state governments have given up authority to the federal government primarily because they were bribed by federal printed dollars. Wonder why we have $40 trillion of debt in the federal level? Well, it’s not allowed constitutionally, but it happens. And a lot of that is spent to bribe state officials. And state and local elections, though even in spite of that, can still quite literally become very important if the right person runs and wins. But herein is a dilemma. 85% of likely voters cast ballots, according to this recent report we’ll talk about. 85% of likely voters cast ballots for high profile races like president or governor and participation then plunges to 55% for local offices.
And this creates genuine problems and this is what is referred to as down ballot gap. It’s that break off that happens when local dollars, local people, local elections, which govern local tax dollars, public safety and classroom curricula are skipped over. And crucially, the research suggests that this drop off isn’t caused solely by voter indifference, although I think that’s a part of it, since as much as 50% of the people, according to the report, point directly to a lack of reliable, trustworthy information about candidate worldviews and other information about them. In any event, the results of not participating fully in local elections does in fact produce profound consequences. We’re going to go through some of those here today. George, welcome to the program. It’s great to talk with you as always.
George Barna:
Well, thanks Sam. Yeah, I’m looking forward to the conversation.
Sam Rohrer:
George, let’s start here. Why was the specific research initiated and who was the targeted sample of people interviewed? Because I’m sure that makes a difference on how they responded on these questions.
George Barna:
It does make a difference and it should make a difference in terms of how we interpret the information. So this was a nationwide sample of adults, 2000 of them randomly sampled who are registered to vote and who self-reported that they are likely to vote in this year’s November election. And so the purpose of this research was to try to understand why someone will go to all the trouble of voting, but when it gets toward the latter part of their ballot, they would leave the choices for local and county offices blank. And so often we hear about big election issues, one of those being low turnout in elections, and that is a huge issue. This is a little bit different than that because these are people who are turning out to vote. They’re not staying home and saying, “Forget the election. I’m not going to participate at all.” They’ve chosen to participate and all they had to do was move down the ballot a little bit to finish up their opportunity to choose different office holders.
But instead what they choose to do is ignore the more localized offices. So as you mentioned in your opening there, there’s a huge gap and we want to know, well, how can we increase the percentage of people who are voting for those local offices?
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, that’s great. Now let’s go here. Do these results, George, actually confirm that most people view national elections as more important than local elections or does the data prove that political fundraisers point that, well, he has the most money wins and because more money spent on federal high profile elections, people know more about those people, therefore they vote for those people and they let the others go? Or perhaps is there something different altogether that we should be picking up from this information?
George Barna:
Yeah, I want to be careful. As a researcher, we tend to be pretty careful if we’re any good. And so one of the things I would say is, well, the research doesn’t prove anything. I mean, this is an estimate of what’s going on with the population, but what it’s showing us is that yeah, money does significantly affect outcomes. It affects people’s awareness of the candidates, their motivation to participate, the appeal of different candidates, but it’s not just money that has that kind of impact. Media coverage, the understanding of the offices and a voter’s responsibilities, whether or not they trust the process, what kind of cues they’re looking for when they’re making their voting choices. All of these things together determine whether or not somebody’s going to bother to vote and when they vote, how they’re going to vote, who they’re going to vote for. And we’ve got to remember that people vote for what they believe matters.
They’re trying to support their own self-interest. And so they’re taking their worldview into their polling place. They’re making their choices based on that worldview. And so these are all things that we have to take account of when we’re trying to figure out what influences how people
Sam Rohrer:
Vote. Ladies and gentlemen, I think if you’re listening to me right now, you say, “Oh yeah, how many times have we all gone to the voting booth?” And we get down to the bottom, we say, “Well, who is this guy on this school board? I don’t know anything about him. Who is this guy that’s running over here for township supervisor or whatever it may be on the local level?” We understand and it is a problem. So we’re trying to find out now what the report shows and what we can learn from it because there are practical applications that can help, I think, all of us who fear God on how to approach our voting and for whom we cast our vote.
Well, if you’re just joining us today, welcome aboard. We’re going into our second segment here today and just started the program. My special guest again today is Dr. George Barna. Today though, however, rather than talking about reports and research, which we almost always do, mostly every month, reports that come from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, we’re taking a little departure today and actually looking at a study that was commissioned by AFA Action, that’s American Family Association Action and iVoter Guide. Now, iVoter Guide is an entity that many of you, we’ve encouraged over the years to use. It’s a guide that helps to give insight into. They don’t go all the way down to the local elections because it’s so hard. We’re talking about that today, but so many candidates across the spectrum, across 50 states, they will deal with and you can find information on iVoter Guide.
And it was done on behalf of these two together. So I just want you to know that upfront, but George happened to have conducted that study, so that’s why we’re talking with him. But because of the upcoming election in November and always elections are something of great importance, we thought it was interesting and valuable perhaps to talk about things we’ve learned and was learned out of this report. Now that being said, as we move into the second segment, we’re going to zero in on where this information gap, why people will tenderly vote the top of the ticket and then they will skip over the bottom. Why that is so important, why it hits hardest at the local level in races, for instance, like school boards or local judicial candidates or county commissioners, city councils, that kind of thing. While national races dominate the airwaves, and they do, we know they do, these local offices, these local ones directly impact our daily lives in ways that those federals don’t.
They more directly are associated with our local tax dollars. These are the people that protect the local public safety. They direct the education of our children and grandchildren in public schools, the school board members. And many times, in some cases, the only level of government able to resist an increasingly overarching federal government. So as federal government steps into our lives, the last line of defense is local government, local officials, all the more reasons why these are important. Now Dr. Barna’s report uncovers a striking finding. Local school board races present the widest information gap on the entire ballot. 36%, only 36% of likely voters reporting they feel least equipped in that area to evaluate school board candidates. When voters leave these down ballot positions blank due to a lack of candidate clarity, what they know about them, low turnout in local elections end up being decided often, as we all know, by very thin margins.
Sometimes only a few votes will win or lose an election. And this allows, if viewed it one way, it allows a small organized group of people to exert an outsized influence over the worldview and policy shaping over our local communities. The other hand, it’s a two-edged sword. The scenario rewards organization and volunteers who plan well and work hard, but on the other hand, outside organizations know this too, and that often causes them to bring in outside volunteers and outside money, a pattern we witness routinely across our nation on the local level. Okay, you get the idea, I think what I’m talking about. So George here, the reality of mediocre, I’m going to say unconstitutional or immoral classroom curricula, the increasing challenges that are happening right now to parental rights, these things have really long been known and people deal with them one way or the other.
But in light of the unarguable fact, why do you think local school board races with the influence that they actually have post the single largest, what we term knowledge gap that you found for voters on the entire ballot?
George Barna:
Well, Sam, I think you have to step back and say, well, how do people figure out who they’re going to vote for, how they’re going to vote, where do they get their information? And what we know, and I’ve been doing political research for. Actually, I just realized that it’s more than 50 years that I’ve been doing that because I got started in politics as a pollster, campaign manager, et cetera. But what we know is that the media shape our understanding of our personal reality. And so media have the biggest influence on our perceptions of the world. Now, when we bring that together with the idea of, yeah, but what does that have to do with voting for local races? Well, who’s going to cover local races, local media? But local media exposure, first of all, is very limited. Most voters actually don’t pay attention to any local media anymore because the media universe has changed so much.
You’ve got fewer local newspapers, you’ve got fewer local radio stations paying attention to local issues and candidates and things of local interest. You’ve got very little in the way of local television unless you live in a big metropolitan area. And so the media coverage of local politics tends to be pretty limited. So on the one hand, we know that most voters’ natural inclination is to vote without putting a whole lot of effort into the process. But then when you look at the local offices, things get even worse because low information voters become really low information voters. And so what happens is they wind up seeking very simple cues as to how to vote. Now the top cue we’ve identified is they want to know the party identification of a candidate, but when people run for school board, it’s very rare across the country that school board candidates declare a party affiliation.
So that top cue that people look for is gone. So what do they look for next? Well, do I recognize the name? So now we’re talking about long signs and billboards and direct mail and posters and grocery stores. Those kinds of things suddenly are determining who we’re going to vote for. All we do is we recognize the name. We don’t know anything about the person, what they stand for, how they’re going to represent us, but that’s what happens. Then the other thing that they can get a cue on is incumbency because often on the ballot itself, it will tell the person, “Well, they’ve served in this office already.” And so then you’ve got to make the choice of, well, do you prefer the known to the unknown? But that’s even assuming that we have any idea how that person performed in that office, which given that there’s been little to no media coverage that we as voters have been exposed to, we don’t really know.
So voter guides take on an oversized importance in these kinds of elections. They’re becoming popular, but very few of them cover local races. Candidate forums and local events, people don’t attend those. And when you go to them, basically it’s an exercise in marketing by the candidate. It’s not really an effort to let people get to know them, what their worldview is, what matters to them, how they would handle key issues, what they do in certain legislative or administrative situations. So then we’ve got what I think is the biggest issue of all, which is that for school board races, remember I said earlier that people vote their self-interest. In school board races, roughly 70% of the people who are voting don’t have children in the public schools. And so they’re looking at that particular office and saying, “That has nothing to do with me. Either I don’t have kids or my kids are out of those schools or I send my kids to private schools or religious schools, so it’s irrelevant to me.
The perception is that it doesn’t impact my life in spite of the fact that that person’s tax dollars are going to fund those schools and the students graduating from those schools based on what they were taught and exposed to there are going to affect the life of the voter in some way.” So it’s a really interesting situation.
Sam Rohrer:
Well, it is. I mean, I think everybody listening, George, right now would say, “Yep, I agree.” Even though like in the case of school board, in most cases where people live across the country, those are the people that impact the greatest majority of local taxes that are paid. So anyway, but in regard to this, when you’ve looked at this, to what degree do you think general constitutional knowledge, for instance, about the duties, the authority of local positions, like a school board member as an example, or one that’s a big one, is a local sheriff, as an example, who has an enormous amount of local power as a local official. To what extent is it a lack of knowledge of the function and the authority of local positions that may cause people to determine not to spend the time to check into them?
George Barna:
Well, it’s huge. Again, I can go back to my experience as a campaign manager as well. And we always used to talk about the races as being beauty contests because people didn’t know anything about the candidates. So they’d see their picture, they’d look at their name, “Okay, sounds like an American name. Yeah, they’re a good looking person. I like their smile. Yeah, they have an honest face.” I mean, suddenly we’re voting based on that information. I’ve done national surveys for years trying to gauge people’s understanding of the process and the related responsibilities. And consistently what I find is that most Americans have never read the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They don’t know what’s in it. They don’t even understand that there are three branches of government, why those three branches exist,
George Barna:
They interact with each other. They have no understanding of the function and authority of local government compared to state government, compared to federal government. So yeah, we wind up voting out of multiple layers of ignorance. And I don’t mean to be nasty, but that’s on us.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay. And that is on us, George. Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. We’re going to go further. You don’t want to miss the next segment. Well, as we transition now into our third segment, again, moving logically through a recent report, down ballot report that was done, my guest, Dr. George Barna, conducted research for AFA Action, American Family Association Action in conjunction with I Voter Guide. Both those organizations, I know most of you would recognize and many of you no doubt have actually used the helpful information produced by I Voter Guide in regard to information about candidates in all 50 states where the work is done. So that being the case, that’s what we’re looking at. But as we transition, we’re going to shift our focus from the problem of local voter drop off, people voting the top of the list and not voting the bottom, to what we can learn from this research and what it reveals about the cause and then a potential or the potential solution.
For instance, while what is referred to as the down ballot gap is real, what I just described, the data indicates that voters aren’t dropping off primarily due to apathy, although I think clearly that is some there, but these are people, as George said, those who were interviewed were those who said they were going to vote. So it’s not due so much as to apathy, but because they say they lack trustworthy, unbiased information about the candidate themselves and therefore based on that, how they would most likely perform if they got into office. Now crucially, Dr. Barna’s report suggests that when reliable information is made available, according to the report, people are eager to act. 64% of voters in this report say that access to a trustworthy source of candidate evaluations would make them significantly more likely to complete the entire ballot, meaning going and voting all the way down to the local elections.
Furthermore, the study highlights that voters are actively seeking candidates who do align with, again, their core foundational values. Could be such things as protecting minors online as an example, or defending parental rights or upholding perhaps a biblical judicial philosophy. The assumption therefore develops that if citizens are equipped with worldview aligned data, the information gap shrinks and stewardship in the voting booth then increases dramatically. Now that’s the assumption, that’s the correlation. George, your research demonstrates that 64% of voters say they would remain engaged all the way down to the bottom of the ballot to the local elections if provided with trustworthy, accurate candidate information. Of course, that needs to be defined. Here’s my question. What specific candidate criteria or worldview indicators are faith-based voters actually looking for when evaluating these lesser known local races and how can they get it?
George Barna:
Yeah, it’s interesting. To me, it’s a little bit frightening looking at this data because what we found is that the top thing that they want to get is information about the candidate’s positions on key issues. 64% said that would be very valuable. That’s great. I understand that and yes, that will be very valuable. But the reason I say it’s a little bit frightening is because then I juxtaposition that against the fact that only 37% of all likely voters say yeah, they’d persist to the end of the ballot if they had information about the candidate’s religious beliefs or worldview. And if you look more deeply into the spiritually inclined groups, it’s still a minority of people who regularly attend evangelical churches, a minority of those who regularly attend Pentecostal churches, only four out of 10 of those who are what I would describe as theologically identified, born again Christians.
So even the people of the most overt measures of biblical faith are saying, no, there are things that are more important than what the person’s religious beliefs or worldview are, where they stand on key issues, 64%, their party identification, 53%, their political experience, 51%. I’m not saying those kinds of things are unimportant. They are important, but I think this particular set of answers really speaks to, if you will, the siloization of our faith in America, the fact that we’ve separated our faith from the other dimensions of our life. So we’re not that interested in the moral character of the candidate. We’re not so interested in the broad strokes at least of their worldview as we are some rather superficial measures of who they are.
Sam Rohrer:
And George, that leads me right into the next question and application. And again, here I’m going to connect to your American Worldview Inventory research that we generally talk about, Isaac and you and I talk about generally on this Friday program. And that is where you’ve identified about 94%, I think, of all Americans are a part of a new religion called syncretism where they’ve actually defined the God in their image, defined truth in their own eyes, and they view the world, meaning their worldview is not biblical. And therefore, if that is the case, I’m going to say that if, if since that’s the case, on the broad base of people, certainly the people who run for office, and I was in office for a long time and I saw it firsthand, that those who you have a choice to vote for, they’re also among that category.
And part of the problem is what do they actually believe about the God of the Bible? And it’s the merging of these things, George. I’ve tended to think that many times people are driven more by a sense of duty to vote rather than considering what God says about how we should vote and who he says he would bless and that connection. Can you speak to that a little bit? Because I don’t know how we can deal with this issue here today without at least having some consideration of this.
George Barna:
Yeah. And again, Sam, that’s something that I’ve been studying from different angles for quite a while. And what I’ve found is that there are different views in how to respond to that kind of question among people within the church. Many devoted Christians have differing views on this. What I’ve found is that the most common reaction of people is that, “Well, this is the slate that I’ve been given. I’m just going to vote for the best of the existing choices, even though none of them are necessarily desirable. I’m going to give them my support.” That’s the most common approach. The least common approach is kind of a personal, and it’s my personal reaction too. And that’s that we’ve got to change the process then. If what we’re being given is a slate of bad choices, I don’t want to throw my support behind what I think is going to disrupt my life, what is going to support evil, what’s going to do things that offend God.
As best I can figure that out, I need to know that in advance. So that’s got to become part of the process, which in turn means that if we’re going to change that process, well then first of all, we’ve got to identify what are the standards of viable candidates and how should government be conducted. We’ve got to figure out how do we educate other people about these biblical standards and standards for stewardship and for leadership because that’s all part of it. Then we’ve got to go about recruiting viable candidates, those who fit these standards that we’ve identified and then energetically support them. Wow, well that’s a lot of change that would have to take place, but otherwise I think we’re going to keep getting what we’ve been getting. And there’s a third option which some people engage in and that’s kind of the middle option in terms of frequency.
And that’s simply boycotting voting because they don’t think the candidates are good enough quality. So that’s the range of options that I’ve seen come out of the research. But Sam, I know that you even mentioned before that you’d held public office, statewide office or state office for a couple of decades. You’ve been in the trenches in this. Answer your own question. I mean, how do you think people should be responding to this?
Sam Rohrer:
We don’t have enough time to go through all this, George, but I would say that from a believer’s perspective, not who we’re talking to today, a person with a biblical worldview must start first with what does God say? Does God have criteria for what comprises a person that the Bible describes as a minister of God in Romans 13? Every person in office is a minister of God. The question is, are they a minister of God for good? Meaning do they do what God says a person in office ought to do as in executing justice, limited government, praise those who do well, punish those who do evil. Do they manifest the attitude of a servant of God, which is a minister of God? Meaning, are they driven by pride or are they driven by a servant’s heart? It’s obvious. Are they given to bribery? Cast them out.
Or are they given to justice? The Bible defines all of that. Are they a truthful person? Have they actually been able to prove that when they make a promise, they keep it? One great place is if they’ve made an oath to marry a woman, are they still married to them or if they have committed adultery multiple times? I mean, how many times did we go to the ballot box and we say, Well, that guy, not good. Well, so this is my point, George, is that if we are really wanting to get the blessings of God, we have to start and say, what does the Bible say about who will God bless and who does he say we should? I mean, the Bible didn’t anticipate that we’d vote for people. That’s a real privilege in our nation, but when we do, why in the world would I vote for someone who has the characteristics of someone that God hates or someone who does not fear God?
So ladies and gentlemen, you get the idea. We don’t have time to go into all that, but there are aspects. And the question is, do we start with what God says he will bless? We’re in our final segment today with Dr. George Barna, and I’m going to give you, again, the names of this report and someplace that you can go at the end. But as we conclude, we’re going to move from the data and the diagnosis as we’ve considered today to the practical application, of which there really are many and too many for us to cover on this program. But if the downballot gap, where people start at the top and they don’t vote all the way down to the bottom, if in fact it’s largely driven by an information void and a lack of worldview knowledge, meaning what that candidate thinks and what they therefore may do based on what they think, but we fundamentally suffer, as we’ve referred to earlier, by an over 90% evidence of Americans embracing the idolatrous position of syncretism, which we’ve talked on American worldview inventory that Dr. George Barna has done, that is a fundamental major problem where 90%, it’s actually higher than that, Americans actually embrace this position of syncretism where, as we defined before, it’s really where a person, well, feels comfortable in creating a God in their own image. How do we balance the desire for a greater number of people voting down ballot, but confront the greater need for people who need to know how to make votes consistent with a true biblical worldview and evaluating people and their promises and their policies based on biblical truth, absolute truth. And when it comes to those and candidates, it starts with God’s definition of morality. So obviously if a person supports killing babies, if they support divorcing their wives or marrying more than one or embracing bribery and they have manifested corruption in their personal lives, why in the world would anybody think that once they get an office, they’re all of a sudden going to turn over and become a model of virtue and honesty?
You get my point. So in the last segment, when George asked me about my thoughts on that, I’m saying, yeah, the Bible does say what a person, if they are going to be blessed by God and God is going to say to them, well done. There’s certain things they’re going to have to think and do, right? Well, as a God-fearing citizen going in to vote, shouldn’t we be starting with the very things that God says to rather than, I’m saying, rather than saying, “Well, you know what? Neither one of these candidates really meet the criteria, so I’m going to vote for the lesser of two evils.” I have never voted George for the lesser of two evils, not to my knowledge. Now, not anybody is perfect, but boy, if I don’t fear God or manifest certain basic things, I’m going to say, “Why am I going to vote yes?” Okay.
Now I’m putting other things in there of which we don’t have time to fully build out, but certainly God focuses on the heart and the characteristics of righteous leadership. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the evil bear rule, the people mourn. Why don’t we begin to think like God and make determinations accordingly? So here’s my question here, George, if we kind of wrap it up. How does a true God-fearing person navigate these days of troubled waters where we have difficulties measuring people because maybe we don’t start with the right place and how to measure? We hear information that tends to give us a persuasion, not based on information, but trying to propagandize. How do we manifest a biblical worldview in hearing God say when we’re all said and done, well done, in these days when biblical truth really has been set aside, whether or not the vote is on the bottom of the ballot or the top of the ballot?
George Barna:
Yeah, Sam, I guess I would encourage each of us to step back and do kind of a ruthless self-evaluation and take responsibility for the fact that, okay, voting is a privilege. I want to exercise that privilege, but I want to do it in a way that honors God, advances his kingdom, demonstrates his agenda for our lives. And so I’ve got to examine myself. Is my worldview where it needs to be? Does it truly reflect biblical principles from A to Z? And that’s where it’s got to start. But then to recognize, well, if that’s what God is looking for from me, certainly he’s going to look for that from those individuals who are going to hold positions of authority in a government. And so it’s that worldview mindset that we’ve got to start building. It’s not even just about me. It’s about what I begin to expect of other people who are going to be putting boundaries and limitations on my life, who may be able to open up opportunities for my life.
Am I going to use those opportunities to know, love, and serve God with all my heart, mind, strength and soul because that’s the bottom line of my life. So then I’ve got to think about, okay, with these people who want to put themselves in a position of leadership over me, am I going to hand them, willingly hand them that authority? And so I’ve got to look at if they’re not a perfect reflection of what I’m looking for, how much am I willing to sacrifice in order to compromise in order to support somebody? And so all of this I think is going to take a lot more work on our lives than it even is on what we’re doing with the ballot. The ballot is kind of downstream of who we’re setting ourselves up to be. And so we’re not going to vote well until we are thinking and living well.
We want to think like Jesus and because we do what we believe, we want to think like Jesus so that we can act like Jesus. And I think the ultimate test for me personally is if I mark the ballot for this person, is that who I really wholeheartedly believe Jesus would vote for if he were in my shoes? And I can only know that by reading the scriptures, praying to God, waiting for his revelation to me if he chooses to in that way. But I’ve really got to turn all of this over to God and say, God, help me to make good choices here. I can’t have the hubris to think that, well, I can make good choices. I’m a smart guy. I can figure this out. I really can. I need the Holy Spirit guide me all along the way.
Sam Rohrer:
George, I like the fact that you went right to starts with ourself because as a man, thinketh in his heart, so is he. As I, in my heart, say, God, I’m going to glorify you or no, I’m going to please myself. There will come my actions, my choices. And as you say, voting is but one downstream reflection. It makes me think back as we wrap up here. It makes me think back to the days of Israel when the people were there and God was leading them through the prophets and they got themselves together and say, you know what? We want somebody that looks like the kings around us. Give us all, give us all. Because they looked on the outward appearance and God said, no, no, no, no. And they suffered for it. It’s very much that same way, George, right now, how we vote, but really in every aspect of our life.
It really comes back to everything we’ve been talking about, a biblical worldview. Being a disciple of Christ means fearing God and following him and being obedient to his will in every area, doesn’t it?
George Barna:
It does. And I fear that as Americans, because things move so fast and it’s become so acceptable, we do things in a superficial manner. Followers of Christ should not be superficial people. We should be deep people, people who really know God’s word, people who are professing God’s word, people who are modeling God’s word. And so when it comes to something like voting, we should also be deeply involved in the process of doing it in a righteous manner. And we can’t just afford to rely on our feelings. We’ve got to go back to God’s word, his truth, and have the Holy Spirit guide us in what we’re doing in these ballot situations.
Sam Rohrer:
Amen and amen. Thank you, Dr. George Barna. Ladies and gentlemen, iVoter Guide, you can look up iVoter Guide Barner report. You will find the report we’re talking about today.
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