• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Ministry in Media
  • Ministry of Reconciliation
  • Ministry of Presence
  • Events
  Arthur Rouner Ministries

ARTHUR ROUNER MINISTRIES

A People of Faith

10/28/2019

0 Comments

 
I don't get to read Mercatornet.com very often. But my friends pass me things of interest occasionally that are a great encouragement.  Good things come from surprising sources sometimes.

Recently a speech was quoted from the Attorney General of the United States about the need for religion in our national life.

He goes back to the founding fathers, acknowledging that they wisely understood humankind's penchant for selfishness. They took a traditional Christian view of human nature, understanding that while we had great potential for doing good, humans were also capable of evil. There needed to be some form of restraint.  But, it should not be the government.

So, the Founders decided on a "great experiment."  They would place their trust in the self-discipline of the people.  They believed in the ability, in Madison's words, "of each of us to govern ourselves."  Quoting John Adams, "our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

They put huge trust in the Americans as people of faith.  They assumed Americans would be looking to Almighty God to guide them in their personal lives and in their national life.

It was a daring choice to make.  They wanted the Church to have a voice in the market place of ideas, through the individual people.

They assumed a high calling to us all.  They expected God to be a living factor in the lives of individual Americans.
These assumptions go back to the humble trust in God of the Pilgrim generation with their vision of America itself to be "a city on a hill with the eyes of the world upon us."

It was a large and faithful vision. It was articulated first by our Pilgrim ancestors and picked up again by the nation's later founding generation.

That is the call to us in our time, to reclaim that faith in God for our personal need and for the sake of our nation.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Arthur A Rouner, Jr -
    Minister, Author, Leader of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Retreats, Minister of "Presence"

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. . ."
                                                                    2 Corinthians 5:18

Contact Us

>    Call the Faith Line for a daily message:  952-946-7987   <                                                                                    
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Ministry in Media
  • Ministry of Reconciliation
  • Ministry of Presence
  • Events