Rachel Rose Nelson is founder of Her Worth, an international ministry and mission for women, with 5000+ Facebook followers. She is also a wife, mother and student, currently pursuing a Masters in Spiritual Formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary near her home in Portland, Ore. Her writing can be found at http://www.herworth.com.
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Biblical Wisdom for Picking Our Next President
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As the political stage gets set for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, how should Christians engage?
One unexpectedly relevant guide can be found in the book of Judges, which more than any other book in the Bible, describes a divinely-inspired form of leadership similar to our own. Between the era in which God spoke through Moses, and the one in which God worked through kings like David, came an era — lasting over four centuries — during which God raised up a series of individuals who had no predefined lineage, accomplishment, or gender marking them as leadership material. These judges were not judicial so much as military leaders, fulfilling a role strikingly similar to that of the American president.
Another notable commonality Americans share with the Israelites of Judges is the crisis in which we find ourselves. Apostasy, from the Greek word apostasia, means “an abandonment of one’s previous faith.” Then as now, a nation was turning away from God.