Jesus shocked and surprised many of His listeners when He proclaimed our obligation to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.”  Nearly 2000 years later, the nature and extent of Christian involvement in the political process is hotly debated, but I think we can all agree that there are two aspects of Christian involvement in our government that are not debatable.

First, since we live (by the grace of God) in a constitutional republic, the duty and obligation of every Christian citizen is to cast an informed ballot on Election Day.  This flows logically both from the mandate of our Savior and from the teachings of the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 13. 

Frank Wright
NRB

The backbone of our system of government is our electoral process.  The vitality of that process is, in large measure, determined by the strength of voter participation.  Yet, sadly, voter participation in elections has been declining precipitously in recent years.  All this stands in sharp contrast to the enormous price people pay to cast a vote in other countries whose freedoms are less well established.