Locally this week we have all being talking about whether we should have a sex shop in our town. Few seem to understand the difficulty of being a christian in public life (CPL ). Its a bit like being a mother-too many skills required and if you did them all properly you would be God , Christians are meant to be simple ? No its simple to be a Christian - that is all .
In reality , being a real man in politics means being more than most see it as being . Its not about power, and it not all about knowledge . After all , like the Library named in his families honor, Premier Bailliueu was not short of knowledge ( he was sacked ) CPL is not about preaching morality, but having to sit next to the failed moral experiments all day - Its not all about having fun and expectataion in washing dishes, but watching all the sad substitutues being offered that cost much more and give no satisfaction in the end . It means paying the cost of failure and paying the cost of prevention
CPL is a lot about wisdom. Its not about using your power to tell people what they can or can't do but to try and put guards, rails , signs and fences up . Its about saying no to the growing numbers of adults who refuse to protect and support children .
CPL is doubly hard because we are not into zero tolerence like we might be at home or in church . You see we believe in God being a true freedom advocate. Our God and our Christain heritage supports the freedom of all people to choose what they do - up to a point ; that that doesn't stop us trying to persuade people NOT to do certain things.
Ultimately in the mad world that thinks freedom is everything , to say NO in some circumstances is getting harder and harder , lonelier and lonelier. Our leaders need all the prayers they can get . Understanding the circumstances takes the time we seldom give ( say on FB) . .Solutions then offered by the public ( or through FB) so then often lack the FULL credibility of Proverbs 11:14. Our obligation, whatever our territory, is ( because we will have some and should stick to some ) to take advice and then , and then only, take dominion .
All this is scriptural (sound long standing secure stuff )but who would know with all the messing around with our education (http://