ELECTION 2024

Why Christians Need to Vote

“This election is the most important election of your lifetime.” 

We hear it every election cycle ̶  to the point that we start to tune it out as just more media hype. But now, more than ever, each election ̶  whether it's presidential or at the local level ̶  is vitally important. And Bible-believing Christians are uniquely poised to make a huge difference this fall.

Noted pollster George Barna recently conducted a study to determine Christians’ interest levels and viewpoints in the upcoming 2024 election. He interviewed 2000 church-going, self-identified Christians.  Here are just a few highlights:

1. Most (57%) believe the outcome of the November 2024 election will make a big difference in their lives, while many of the rest (29%) say it will make only some difference.

2. Sadly, moral decline was identified by less than one-quarter of the churched Christians (23%) as a defining issue in this election; while abortion on demand was supported by a startling 42%.

3. On the list of issues, economic matters were identified as the top concern, especially in relation to inflation and cost of living (listed by 67%); the economy, in general (64%); unemployment and jobs (38%); and the federal deficit and debt (33%). A related issue was addressing poverty and homelessness, named by 43%.

4. Abortion, the issue of choice, so to speak, for Kamala Harris and Democrats, was the seventh-ranked issue, identified by 41% of churched Christians. 

5. When asked if they would prefer that their churches be more involved or less involved in the 2024 election than they had been in other recent elections, the respondents were split. A plurality (42%) opted for the status quo, preferring the same level of involvement as in the past. The other half of the respondents were evenly divided between saying they prefer their churches to be more involved (25%) or less involved (27%).

Christians now, as they have historically, can provide desperately needed leadership in their communities and in the nation at large. We encourage you to be aware of the candidates and issues on the ballot, to learn what the Bible says regarding these issues, and to encourage fellow Christians to become involved. Vote this year (and in each election). And, most of all, pray for “all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.” I Timothy 2:2. 

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote

that he is...executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society

for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Samuel Adams

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