Who Should I Vote For Seven Rules For Christian Voters

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Who Should I Vote For? Seven Rules For
Christian Voters

• Mark Elrod
• Face the Issues Class
• September 30, 2007

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Why Seven Rules?
• I was looking for a Biblical number
• Three (3) seemed like too few
• Ten (10) sounded too much like commandments
• Twelve (12) would make the class too long
• Six-hundred sixty-six (666) was out of the
  question
• One-hundred forty-four thousand (144,000) would
  require too many slides

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 1
• Dont Listen to Mark Elrod
• Today may be an exception (its a paradox)
• Rule 2
• Its Okay to Not Care About Voting
• Apolitical people have rights too
• Voting none of the above is an option
• And it makes my vote count more (thanks!)

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 3
• Know What Kind of Voter You Are
• Rational Voters (measure costs and benefits)
• Ideological Voters (use party labels)
• Values Voter (varies)
• Single-Issue Voter (anti-abortion\anti-war)

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 4
• Learn to Distinguish Local Issues from National
  Issues
• No matter what kind of voter you are, there is a
  good chance that there is a difference
• National Democrats\Republicans are not local
  Democrats\Republicans
• Local politics gives voters a greater opportunity
  to examine the character of candidates

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 5
• Dont Make Voting a Spiritual Issue
• Its not healthy for you and its not healthy for
  the Lords church
• In essentials, unity in non-essentials,
  liberty in all things, love.
• Im going to spend the first 10,000 years in
  heaven annoying all of the people who dont think
  I should be there. Then, Im going to learn how
  to play the harp.

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 6
• Political Pluralism Requires Compromise
• Christians can be fairly uncompromising people
• As a result, politics can be a frustrating
  experience
• Sometimes, the ways of men are not the ways of
  God
• In attempting to get the secular world to conform
  to our values, we often end up conforming
  ourselves

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Seven Rules For Christian Voters

• Rule 7
• Get Ready to Get Over It
• Youll never get everything you want out of an
  election
• At the end of the day, you still have battles to
  wage that are far more important than who is
  elected to the City Council, Congress or the
  White House
• Pray that you will be at peace with the world and
  with other Christians.