Our readings in this series are from the book, The King’s Heart: The Kingdom of God and Civil Government. Here is an excerpt from pages 85 and 86:
“Good government is government God’s way; good politics is the science of government carried out in accordance with what God has revealed in His Word. Thus it is good for politicians to create and maintain an order to society in which goodness and justicemight flourish. But it is not good for politicians to presume to be able to define the terms of justice and goodness. Governments must be pegged to unchanging standards, such as are outlined in the moral law of God, and politicians should not feel as though changing times or extraordinary needs or circumstances somehow empower them to define new standards of order, goodness, and justice, conveniently ignoring existing standards, or tried and proven standards, in the process.”
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