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No one is perfect except Jesus with Ephesians 4:29 - 'Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen'. For those in politics, it is even more challenging to practice this verse, especially to a wider audience and even more so to the entire very diverse American public. As far as politicians in speaking and following through on their actions, Matthew 5:37 also should mention - 'But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.' Also a politician who sincerely talks with and prays to the God of a number of faiths regularly serving Him. And so that is talking the talk. But then in walking the walk, there are many examples of Jesus and each of us, whether professing to be a Believer or still seeking and not yet there what we do in our day to day actions in our service to others including our communites. And that is difficult for a political servant of the people, especially working with people with varied backgrounds, including those in power such as other members of Congress to get beneficial legislation passed.
The intent of this thread is to help us in voting in November general election to find those candidates who are best in doing Ephesians 4:29, Matthew 5:37, and following through on their actions to help our country going forward. As know from past elections, we have all seen TV ads of candidates, news clips, or postal mailings of mud slinging their opponents and that is a quite a focus of their campaign. Think of candidates who more publicly speak of what they will do positively for our country. Looking forward to comments about candidates who even very unlikely will be elected, but you are voting your God given conscience, each of us thinking what is best for our loved One or ones, knowing in the final election outcome that Romans 13:1 applies -'Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.' No one knows except God what will happen in the country in the next months prior to November, James 4:13-16. Others have mentioned the movie The Longest Yard from 2005 which I have watched recently, where we may end up with an election where no candidate gets a majority of the electoral or even the popular vote for President, and events from that movie may play out in this election season.
To help keep this thread focused, besides bringing up positive candidate actions for our country:
- Only those *in* or running for federal office, President, Vice President, House of Representatives, or Senate. Separate similar threads could be started for regions less than the entire US or regions around the world, but those people may not be well known across the US or around the globe.
- Candidates must be a US Citizen and/or must otherwise qualify for the federal position they are running for.
- Candidate can be actively running their campaign or have suspended it (suspend does not always mean terminate, which campaign could be resurrected)
- Candidate must be breathing and alive today on this earth. Even those who are older and even long out of politics, but had a good impact in the past, are OK to bring up. No fictitious characters from the movies, TV, entertainment theme parks, etc.
- For those are who starting in their political career or aspiring to run for Congress or President or VP, only bring up those who are already served or serving in federal office *or* who is or currently or in the past a state governor. For federal government service, It can be even be a Congressional staffer or someone who is serving or has served in a federal government agency position.
- For those candidates well less known, it will be helpful and beneficial to us to include URL/website news or video links, whether mainstream i.e. Fox, CNN or faith based, Christian Post, TBN. Refrain from bringing up unsubstantiated individual posts from other social media sources such as Reddit, TikTok, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube (unless part of a sermon to a congregation), etc. who are external to Christian Forums.
The intent of this thread is to help us in voting in November general election to find those candidates who are best in doing Ephesians 4:29, Matthew 5:37, and following through on their actions to help our country going forward. As know from past elections, we have all seen TV ads of candidates, news clips, or postal mailings of mud slinging their opponents and that is a quite a focus of their campaign. Think of candidates who more publicly speak of what they will do positively for our country. Looking forward to comments about candidates who even very unlikely will be elected, but you are voting your God given conscience, each of us thinking what is best for our loved One or ones, knowing in the final election outcome that Romans 13:1 applies -'Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.' No one knows except God what will happen in the country in the next months prior to November, James 4:13-16. Others have mentioned the movie The Longest Yard from 2005 which I have watched recently, where we may end up with an election where no candidate gets a majority of the electoral or even the popular vote for President, and events from that movie may play out in this election season.
To help keep this thread focused, besides bringing up positive candidate actions for our country:
- Only those *in* or running for federal office, President, Vice President, House of Representatives, or Senate. Separate similar threads could be started for regions less than the entire US or regions around the world, but those people may not be well known across the US or around the globe.
- Candidates must be a US Citizen and/or must otherwise qualify for the federal position they are running for.
- Candidate can be actively running their campaign or have suspended it (suspend does not always mean terminate, which campaign could be resurrected)
- Candidate must be breathing and alive today on this earth. Even those who are older and even long out of politics, but had a good impact in the past, are OK to bring up. No fictitious characters from the movies, TV, entertainment theme parks, etc.
- For those are who starting in their political career or aspiring to run for Congress or President or VP, only bring up those who are already served or serving in federal office *or* who is or currently or in the past a state governor. For federal government service, It can be even be a Congressional staffer or someone who is serving or has served in a federal government agency position.
- For those candidates well less known, it will be helpful and beneficial to us to include URL/website news or video links, whether mainstream i.e. Fox, CNN or faith based, Christian Post, TBN. Refrain from bringing up unsubstantiated individual posts from other social media sources such as Reddit, TikTok, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube (unless part of a sermon to a congregation), etc. who are external to Christian Forums.
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