Beyond the Ballot Box: Election Results Through a Biblical Worldview
Nov. 9, 2026
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Dr. Renton Rathbun
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 11/9/26 To listen to the podcast, click HERE
Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.
Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to Stand in the Gap today. And it’s also our monthly focus on apologetics, biblical worldview and education with the recurring guest, Dr. Renton Rathbun. He’s an educator, he’s an apologist, a speaker and host of his own program, The Renton Rathbun Show, which is directed to dealing with issues mostly directed to parents and grandparents, things that will face and do face their children and grandchildren. But I’ll come back and I’ll give you that link a couple times during the program. Now, last week, Americans went to the polls, as we all know, and they rendered their verdict. And since then, commentary has ranged far and wide. Politicians are either excited or angered and fearful. Some are distancing themselves from political allies while others are ingratiating themselves to the new winners. Elections always bring changes, some good and some not so good. Speculation and allegations based on partial truths are running high as some seek to discredit the results altogether, while others attempt to take credit for outcomes they can’t rightfully claim.
Political analysts are searching for explanations and their moment in the sun. But asking questions is justified. Seeking clarity in a time of contradiction and confusion is normal. And today we’re going to do just that, but take a different approach. The title I’ve chosen to frame our conversation today is Beyond the Ballot Box: Election Results Through a Biblical Worldview. Now, just a few days ago on this program, I suggested that before believers reacted to election outcomes, we should ask three larger questions. Now based on that election, where are we now? Where is our trust centered now? And where do we go from here now? Basically those three questions. And before we can answer those questions and others, I think correctly, we must first establish the lens through which we’re going to view the world around us, the events that impact us and reality itself. Every person, as we say regularly on this program, interprets life through a worldview.
It’s not a matter of if, but which one. That’s why we seek with God’s help every day on this program to evaluate current events through the lens of God’s word. And when done accurately, choosing to look at life through the word of God will shape how we think and learn and live, make decisions, including the important civic responsibility of voting. And such an approach, a true biblical world approach stands in direct contrast to man’s view, which is any and all perspectives not fully aligned with God’s truth. And while that statement I just made there is what the Bible says, it’s also what objective research shows that in America today, 94% of all adults do not embrace a biblical worldview. Therefore, I’m going to suggest by logical extension, the majority, great majority of American’s perspective going into the election and coming out of the election does not reflect a biblical worldview, elevating the need, I think, for our focus today.
And with that, Renton, thanks for being back with the program. It’s a big issue that we want to address. It’s an important one, but with God’s help, we’ll be able to do it today, but thanks for being here.
Renton Rathbun:
Oh, thanks for having me. Boy, today it’s a very timely subject, isn’t it?
Sam Rohrer:
It is indeed. So let’s get right into it. This first segment I’m calling beyond the polls and politics, the two views of life. Now we’ve talked about it before, but let’s make an application here. Before we examine the election facts and Christian response, let’s begin with the most fundamental question of all. What are the optional lenses through which one can choose to interpret not just all of life, but the election results that we just witnessed?
Renton Rathbun:
I encourage your listeners to listen to our last conversation where we talked about having the mind of Christ and we really get into what are the two lenses and is there anything else? And there isn’t. What we find, and I want to get really specific here, I don’t want to just say merely a biblical worldview. That’s important to have a biblical worldview, but who is the central character of scripture? Colossians two tells us that Paul is telling the Colossians, “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face that their hearts be encouraged, being knit together and love to reach all the riches of the full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” And he says, “I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.” In other words, your treasure, all the treasure of wisdom and knowledge, all of it is in Christ and therefore your worldview either begins and ends in Christ or it begins and ends in a lie.
So we look through scripture, we look through our lives, we look at this election through the mind of Christ or we look at it through a lie.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay. So there’s two and that’s again, ladies and gentlemen, that’s the point. There are two views. We’ve talked much about it and Brenton, you just laid that out again. Let’s go further. You’ve taught biblical worldview. That’s what you do for BJU Press and the consulting and all of that. Here’s the question. Why is it so important for believers to understand that the real issue is not merely differing political opinions or party or anything of that type, but actually differing worldviews? And then this question, how can Christians recognize when their own thinking is being shaped more by man’s perspective than by God’s perspective?
Renton Rathbun:
Well, when we talked about Colossians, it says all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. It is important to understand that next phrase where he says, “I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.” And this is where we find our biggest problem. We have not distinguished between opinions and worldviews, and it all comes down to common ground. So an opinion, you can have common ground. In an opinion, you can have common interests, you can have common logical constructs, you can have common desired outcomes, but that is not a worldview. An opinion comes out of a worldview. And so if you have differing worldviews, you might be deluded into thinking that because you might be of the same opinion that you have some kind of worldview in common. A worldview has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
If your worldview does not begin at the same place as someone else’s worldview, then you literally don’t agree, even if your opinions might be the same. So if your starting point is not Christ, then your starting point is a lie. We have cozied up to people whose opinions we might have common ground with, but who has antichrist worldviews. And I think that is what we have to unpack as we go through this program.
Sam Rohrer:
And that’s a powerful, powerful statement that you just made there, Brenton. Think about that ladies and gentlemen. We can agree with other people on opinions. That happens all the time, but it does not mean that we have a shared biblical worldview, so the next step may not be agreement. Anyway, we’ll come back on that. Our sub theme in this next segment is this, what election results reveal about the heart of a nation? Beyond the ballot box, election results through a biblical worldview. Well, if you’re just joining us today, thanks for being a part of the program. This focus today is one that I think if you didn’t catch the first segment, you’ll need to go back and listen to it, but it’s a theme that really affects all of us. And here’s the title, Beyond the Ballot Box: Election Results through a Biblical Worldview. And we’re talking, reflecting back on this very notable election of a week ago tomorrow.
We’re doing this program on Monday of this week. My guest is Dr. Renton Rathbun with me generally once a month. And we deal with issues such as this and other things, but from an apologetic and biblical worldview perspective, he has a website which I told you I’d share with you is rentonrathbun.com. Now, in our first segment, Renton and I established that every person interprets life through a worldview. It’s not a matter of if, but which one. If you listen to the program regularly, you know that’s not a new though. That’s the way it is, but an application of it is what we’re trying to do today because that worldview provides a lens. It’s a lens that we choose largely to determine the conclusions that we reach. And it’s true about all aspects of everyday life. It’s certainly true when evaluating, as we’re focusing today, election outcomes.
And it’s because the impacts are so broad. Now let’s move the lens through which we’re viewing the election generally in the last segment to the election results themselves. As believers, we should certainly care about facts. We should seek truth. We should reject speculation and we should avoid emotional conclusions. And that should be about all of life. Yet elections are never merely about candidates or campaigns or political parties, yet they are all emotional. Elections reveal something about the people also casting the votes, of which those who end up being the candidates that were selected a little bit downstream, put it that way. The old saying that people generally get the government they deserve, you’ve heard that. And it’s while not entirely true in every circumstance, elections do provide a window into the values and priorities and fears and hopes and beliefs of a people. They tell us something about what a nation loves and fears and trusts and ultimately I’m going to say worships.
Now this we know is true because as we know from scripture, it is from a man’s heart that the mouth speaks and life’s decisions are made. We also know that people do what they believe, not always what they say they think. So before we rush to celebrate victories or lament defeats, what do these results actually reveal about us as a people? I mean, I’m talking the election results. And how should Christians understand that reality through a biblical worldview? Okay now Renton, let’s get right into it because from a biblical worldview perspective, which you say starts with Christ, goes through Christ and what he teaches and it ends with reflecting back. So what do election results actually reveal about a nation and its people and what cautions here, what cautions should Christians keep in mind when attempting to interpret these results, all of which are emotional and opinions coming from all sides?
And here’s the question also, to what extent do election outcomes reflect the underlying values, convictions and worldview commitments of a culture, the people who cast the votes?
Renton Rathbun:
Political elections are not where people are experimenting with new thoughts and new patterns of thinking. Instead, political elections reveal the heart commitments of a nation. Obviously the majority, not everyone of course, but you see a majority understanding of what is revealed about their heart commitments. And it really only takes the constant normalizing of sin to make Christians, especially the Christian church, passive, submissive and compromising. I think that our values have really just become our need for control and we are in a control fight. That’s why often we call it the culture of wars. Oftentimes the culture of wars turn into value fights of how do I control the culture? And this desire for control becomes a value to us. Our priests become podcast personalities. Our churches are echo chambers and our zeal is manufactured because what we are taught, here’s my concern, here’s my warning.
We are taught that this whole fight is man versus man. It’s us versus another group of people and we are wrestling with flesh and blood. And all of this is because we have forgotten our worldview begins and ends with Christ. The church has been deluded into thinking that they are wrestling flesh and blood, but Ephesians six denies this. We are not wrestling flesh and blood. We are wrestling rulers against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness. Now what’s interesting is when you first read that in Ephesians six, many people would say, “Yeah, we certainly are fighting rulers and powers and world forces.” But then that little phrase of this darkness against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. In other words, these rulers, these powers, these world forces are things we cannot see. We are in a world where we are fighting demons and we are fighting forces and it is organized and they have been thinking about it and we still think we’re fighting men.
And really what we should be thinking about is how we are fighting the darkness of this world, the things we cannot see.
Sam Rohrer:
All right. I think that is excellent. I’m just going to let that sit for right. Let me go to the next question and then maybe we’ll come back if there’s time because Renton, I want to go here. We’re talking about
Renton Rathbun:
Values
Sam Rohrer:
And what elections reveal about the heart of a nation. And I referenced something in the first segment, but research. And I’m going to say again, Dr. George Barna is the one who’s done it and we’ve talked much on this program about it, but one of the things that just struck me in the past and we have dealt with significantly in programs with him indicates that a staggering 94%, 94%, 94% of Americans embrace idolatry, worshiping as scripture identifies as another God, that’s idolatry. But it’s in the form of what he has termed syncretism and that is where people take and according to the feelings of their heart, take a little bit of Christianity and a little bit of new ageism and a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and they come together into something, but it’s not Christ centered. Now in addition, he also says, although 70% of Americans, seems like a big number, self-identifies Christians, only 6% of them hold a true biblical worldview.
So you’re back to that 6% on either way you go. Here’s the question. From a human perspective, even true Christians can think that when people vote, they should vote differently. That’s why I say get out and vote because we know what the difference it’s going to make. Well, not necessarily. And here’s my question. How should these realities, like those statistical realities, how should they help explain many of the trends and priorities and outcomes that we’re seeing reflected in elections today and the efforts to explain what happened and the direction ahead of us because they, for many people, are shocking because I can’t believe that the people voted this way, but all right, go there. How do you answer that?
Renton Rathbun:
So I believe at our root as people, we are image bearers. Obviously we are to bear the image of Christ, but as image bearers, we’re always longing in our idolatry to bear someone else’s image. So to know who we are, we often look to others to emulate and try to make ourselves into their image. And this is where it might get a little offensive to our audience because the reason why when we look at the ballot box and we have to say we have to pick the better of the two evils always comes down to the fact that we have created a situation where there are two evils to choose from. We have created this. We have made it as it is. It’s not that we are victims sitting back going, oh, we have this horrible person to vote for or really, really horrible person to vote for.
And so therefore we pick the better of the two evils and what else can we do? And we throw up our hands, but we forget that we have emulated people to follow them and we follow them religiously, if I can put it that way, because we agree with their opinions. And I am not saying that we can’t listen to certain talking heads that are out there, but we are not being wise as we listen. We might agree with the opinions of Glenn Beck, but he is a Mormon who believes that the Constitution was inspired by the Holy Spirit. We might agree with certain opinions of Ben Shapiro, but he is a Jewish man that denies that Jesus Christ is God himself. We might agree with some of the opinions of Jordan Peterson, but he admires Christianity, but sees the Bible as this document that is not inspired by the Holy Spirit, but it’s just a nice little book with a lot of flaws in it.
We have created the situation where we have compromised and sat back and were passive over the sin of this world. And now we are in a situation where there are two evils on the ballot box and we act as if we have no work that we have done to make that happen. And that is at the heart of our problem.
Sam Rohrer:
Ladies and gentlemen, again, we’ve talked about it much. Bible says choices have consequences. Elections are those times of choices. It just so happens that in a national election like ours, it has ripples that goes from East Coast to West Coast and literally around the world. It’s major, it’s significant, but how we approach that is like we approach, frankly, every other choice and decision. It’s a worldview. How do we do it? Stay with us, we’ll come back. The spiritual realities beneath the results. Well, if you’re just joining us today, excuse me, our theme is this, beyond the ballot box, election results through a biblical worldview. Okay, we’re all being impacted by the election. Discussions are rippling like throwing a rock into a pond. It’s just going in all directions and everybody’s got an opinion. Not all opinions are valid. And we can talk about that today.
Dr. Renton Rathmann is my guest. He’s with me once a month, and I know that for many, many of you indicated to me a favorite guest from which much is learned. And this subject today, both Renton and I talked ahead of time about what would be relevant, what would be critical from a biblical perspective to understand. And this is that, that’s why we’re dealing with it. It didn’t just happen. So we’re going to continue here now as we look at it. And I have a sub theme, if you’ve noticed from the beginning, I have a broad title, and then each of these segments have a little bit of a sub theme from beginning to end, they connect. And that’s why I encourage you to go back, pick up the program on our app or our website, get ahold of the transcript and read through because there is a roadmap that flows through it and it is concluded always biblically.
So let’s go further now because so far we’ve discussed that the worldview lens to which we should view all of life and using the 2026 election results specifically now, we’ve considered that election results in a visible way and they reveal values and priorities of a people in a collective way. So individually, people go and they make a choice. You put it all together and you have a collective result. All right. Now let’s go a step deeper because those are visible things. But the Bible teaches that behind visible events marked by visible faces, visible names with measurable statistics, conjectures such as dollars spent and votes cast and polls and research that seek to measure motives and more, there lies another larger reality and those are the invisible realities, the spiritual realm. That’s what Renton referred to earlier. There is that larger area. If we’re not careful, we’re going to get caught up thinking that this fight here on earth is between the guy down the road or the guy in office right now.
If we can just change to somebody else, it’s all going to change. Well, it doesn’t work that way, does it? Because elections though visible and policies are visible, political movements are visible, but scripture reminds us that ideas have consequences. Truth rejected carries consequences and nations that either honor or reject God inevitably experience the results of these choices, not always just in the day that you note it, but you see it in the next generation. The greatest danger I think for believers is to become consumed by political analysis while overlooking the spiritual realities operating underneath the surface. The ultimate struggle is not Republican versus Democrat or independent versus libertarian, whatever it is, or conservative versus progressive, or even one candidate versus another. At its root, it is always truth versus error, God’s authority versus man’s authority and trust in God versus trust in self. So Renton, let’s move beyond the headlines and political narratives, go a little bit deeper here.
What spiritual realities are often missed when people focus exclusively on political outcomes and for instance, their side winning as compared to the other side winning rather than viewing events through the broader framework of scripture?
Renton Rathbun:
Well, to go back to our verse in Colossians, if our mind is not the mind of Christ, if we don’t see all the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of all things through Christ, then we will be diluted. And that’s the warning. You’ll be diluted if that’s not where your worldview comes from. And so if I’m Satan, what would I want? I would want people to see that which is the most powerful and threatening to me to be the weakest thing that they neglect the most. I would want them to see power in political power as true power. I’d want them to see as political influence through the media as true power. I would want them to see the majority systems as where your real power is because you’re safe if you have a majority. But the truth is the real power exists in the one that Christ himself calls his bride, which is the church.
And many people see the church as a disappointment, many see the church as weak and that is part of Satan’s work and it’s part of the work of those who have not done their work as pastors, as shepherds, as those who were to equip the church and they have not done their work, but there are great churches out there that have done the work and are standing firm for the Lord, fully equipped. And the true power is what scripture says is the true power, that we have the ability to approach the almighty God in prayer. And the world has done a great job in teaching us that prayer is a waste of time. It’s just a way to blow people off, but it is the most powerful thing you have when you are able to stand in the throne room of the almighty God who is a father to his children.
And we say to him, “Please help us and he will help his people.” And the true power, real power is in the home where we begin to be obedient and submissive to the Lord right there in our homes where we get so focused on the world’s problems and everything that’s going on out there, we forget that the next generation is right there in our homes. Whether we’re parents or grandparents, we need to understand our most important influence needs to be on our children and grandchildren because they are the ones that will replace us one day.
Sam Rohrer:
Excellent. Let’s move on. Specifically, what biblical principles should believers understand? Now you’re talking about they’re in the home, next generation, we’re talking about those things, but God’s role, let’s talk about that, the principles that believers should and must understand about God’s sovereignty in relation to elections and national direction and blessing and judgment and the consequences of collective choices such as we’re talking about briefly here now. And as we referenced in the last segment, for instance, 94% of Americans have a love affair with idolatrous syncretism and therefore 94% reject the Bible as authoritative. So build into that a little bit because God’s hand is involved in all these actions as well. Link those.
Renton Rathbun:
So it’s important for all of us to understand that after Tuesday’s election, God is not up in heaven going, “Ah, that didn’t turn out the way I wanted. I’m worried.” What’s happening is what Romans 13: one says, “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities.” Why? “For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God. “In other words, like two Chronicles 36:17 and Jeremiah 27: six, God establishes some kings and authorities to punish his people. Repentance is the goal because God is more interested in our being conformed to the image of the son than he is our political freedom. Let me say that one more time. Romans eight teaches us that God’s main concern is that we are conformed to the image of his son. Even if as a father, he must pursue us and discipline us even through government because he is more interested in us becoming conformed to the image of his son than he is our political freedom.
Sam Rohrer:
Boy, boy.
Renton Rathbun:
Okay.
Sam Rohrer:
A couple minutes left. When truth is increasingly replaced by feelings, which is what syncretism is, idolatry is, or personal preferences and pragmatism, we’ve done an entire program on that, Renton, what does the word of God say will be, not maybe, but will be the consequences when we step away from truth and then therefore what should we expect to see in both individuals, and I’m going to extend it to families and culture and a nation as a whole?
Renton Rathbun:
You cannot murder almost 70 million babies to the God of Malak and have the true God, Yahweh, sit back and bless you. He will have his vengeance. And this is where as a nation, most of what we complain about is by permission of the church. And Psalm two: one says, “Why do the nations rage in the people’s plot in vain? The kings of this earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, Let us burst their bonds apart And cast away their cords from us. And the Lord laughs at that. Now, how will we ever recover from such a thing? There’s a prescription at the end of chapter two, “Now therefore, O kings, be wise, be warned oh rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Listen carefully. Kiss the son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are those who take refuge in him speaking of the son.” And so here again, even in Psalms, we are reminded to have the mind of Christ, a biblical worldview as we view all these things. It is not by accident we have a blue wave because we have such a nation that has rejected and laughed at God and now God laughs back. And we have got to kiss the son and be submissive to his son.
Sam Rohrer:
Ladies and gentlemen, submitting to Jesus Christ in faith for salvation is where it starts, that vertical relationship restored and then it’s acted out. But it has to be acted out, but it starts with a relationship with the Lord. We come back, we’ll talk about the biblical response, repentance, truth and faithful living. Back in just a moment. Well, this is going to our final segment here now. So stay with us as we try to wrap up this emphasis today. But again, the website for my guest today, Dr. Renton Rathbun, I said I would give it again, is rentonrathbun.com. And in that location, you will find where he provides significant help for parents and grandparents in helping them to guide, understand the challenges to the biblical worldview impacting their children and grandchildren. Very, very, very hopeful. All right. Now our focus today, beyond the ballot box, election results through a biblical worldview, we have taken a principled approach.
We haven’t even mentioned any politicians’ names. We haven’t even mentioned any political parties. Why? Well, because that’s secondary. What we looked at though in segment one, we discussed that there are two competing lenses through which people can choose to view life. That’s God’s perspective or man’s perspective. They’re not multitude of ways. There’s one way through the eyes of Christ, Christ’s mind as we’ve laid out, or anything and everything else is man’s. Segment two, we considered what election results reveal about the heart of a people and how what people truly believe is ultimately reflected in their choices, of which voting is just a big one because we see it and it affects so many times in so many ways. In segment three, we look beyond the visible election results, which is mostly what people are talking about, but go to the deeper spiritual realities and that’s God’s sovereignty and the consequences of rejecting truth and the inevitable results of embracing feelings, idolatry ultimately, pragmatism rather than truth, and human autonomy and place of God’s authority.
Now at this point, some of you may be listening and may be tempted towards discouragement perhaps, I hope not, or fear or anger or even despair. Others may be tempted toward misplaced confidence because their preferred candidate or party may not prevail. Now, hopefully listening to this program right now, you don’t fall into that category. There’s a bigger aspect and that is the biblical response and that’s what we’re talking about. Now as believers, our confidence should have never been and should not be today in political parties, elected officials, courts, legislatures, or in any government. Yet the human tendency is to do just that. These institutions, they do matter and their decisions do carry real consequences, but they were never designed to be the object of our trust. Let me say that again. These aspects of those things we see about us, government and anything related to it, were never designed to be the object of our trust.
Scripture repeatedly directs our attention away from placing ultimate confidence in man toward placing our trust in God alone. So having considered where we are and what election results reveal, let’s conclude by addressing the practical question that every believer should ask is where do we go from here? Renton, regardless of election outcomes, what does scripture say should be the response of true believers in times such as these, particularly regarding, and you’ve already mentioned them, repentance, holiness, the fear of God, trust in the Lord, faithfully representing Jesus Christ in an increasingly secular culture. And there are a number of verses that speak to that, but just go from there. Where should believers be in their mind and where should they go in their thinking with their hands, with their feet, their choices?
Renton Rathbun:
We need to be a people who are steadfast. I think this is, in our church for Sunday school, we have been going through the book of James and the book of James is all about how it is that our faith leads to steadfastness. We need a generation. Those that are replacing us, we need them to be steadfast. James one, verse two says, this is how you all, and this is speaking to everybody today. If you were discouraged after the election that took place, and I hope you are worried about it, this is what it says. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing your faith produces steadfastness. And what does that mean? That means that trials like this come along because we’re not steadfast. Trials come along because we need steadfastness produced. And when steadfastness has its full effect, you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing, but if you lack wisdom, you ask and you ask in faith.
Now this is what’s interesting in verse six, but let him ask in faith with no doubting for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. And doesn’t that describe the people of God today? We are unstable. We are tossed back and forth by winds of doctrine and we need steadfastness. And that begins with counting it all joy during this time so that our faith can be tested so that we might be steadfast.
Sam Rohrer:
And of course we can’t do that unless we believe that God is in control, right Renton? And we can’t do that if we’re not thinking in terms of having the mind of Christ. So you can comment on that, but let me go right into this as we conclude because for those listening today who may be either encouraged or discouraged by the election results, how would you challenge them to keep their confidence centered on God rather than political victories or defeats? And you’ve already spoken to that some, but what practical steps should characterize a biblical response going forward when we consider in fact that if we are in Christ, we are adopted sons of God. We are in fact ambassadors of Christ of a heavenly kingdom.
Renton Rathbun:
Yeah. I would say the first thing we all need to do is do a series of turning towards and turning away froms. I would say turn toward God’s word and away from Fox News. Turn toward prayer and away from politics. Turn toward your church and away from podcasts. Turn toward the people in your church, not online echo chambers. Turn to your family. We have become so technologically invaded that we have been growing our opinions about the world, our opinions about God, our opinions about all kinds of things in the media that we have been consumed with. And we have neglected God’s word. We have neglected prayer. We have neglected our church thinking it is a place of weakness when it is Christ’s bride. And we have neglected the people in our church. We have become so obsessed over our political systems and what’s going on right now that we have not learned how to love those people in our church and to be completely consumed with our church and how we minister to those people.
We have turned away from our family. When was the last time a wife wanted to be counseled by her godly husband instead of being counseled by some conservative political pundit? We men need to have wiser men in our lives. We need to teach our children how to follow the Lord to be a generation that knows him. In Ephesians four, it tells us that Christ gave us apostles, prophets, evangelist shepherds so that we might be equipped in the church for building the body of Christ until we attain this unity of faith and we’re mature so that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by waves and by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by crappiness and deceitful schemes, rather speaking the truth and love. We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head into Christ.
Sam Rohrer:
Dr. Renton Rathbun, thank you so much. I’m just going to close quickly. Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity today. Take these truths we pray and may those who are listening apply them, have changed life. Be encouraged in you and stand firmly in your word we pray. Jesus’ name. Amen. Dr. Renton, again, thanks for being with me today. His website, rentonrathbun.com. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being with us today. Stand in the gap for truth where you are and be encouraged in the Lord.
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