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MINISTRY & PUBLIC POLICY: Can the two mix?

March 4, 2009 by Exodus International

March 4, 2009

Randy Thomas, Executive President of Exodus International, discusses  what it means to be “salt and light” in the world in “The Scarlet Thread of Rahab” featured in the latest edition of Boundless webzine.

For years, even after becoming a Christian, I was dead set against Christians being involved in public policy. Today, I have to confess with Francis Schaeffer that “true spirituality covers all of reality.” If I am truly to be salt and light to the world, unsavory and dark, then I am compelled to be politically engaged – from the basics of voting, to the extended calling of engagement with civic leaders.

And so I’ve found myself, formerly a rabid liberal, in recent years looking more like a pawn for the vast right wing conspiracy.
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