Actor and outspoken Christian Candace Cameron Bure recently called on Christians to “vote like Jesus” in the 2024 presidential election. Bure has continually delivered faith-based messages to Americans amid contentious political polarization.
Bure recently posted an Instagram story linking to a YouTube video of a church service. “Christian … if you are undecided on whether to vote or who to vote for, please watch!!” she wrote on the post, while simultaneously added a sticker reading, “please VOTE.”
The video Bure was commenting on featured a sermon from Pastor Josh Howerton from Lakepointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. “So what’s going to happen? Check this out: if godly leaders, godly pastors and godly voices all go silent or refuse to be clear on issues related to politics and government, then the only voices that are left are the godless ones. So we have to understand this, that if we don’t do this, they will,” he said in his sermon.
The American Tribune has reported on other major comments Bure has made ahead of the election. “Let me tell you ‘bout my Jesus — ROMANS 10:9 ‘If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’ REVELATION 22:13 ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.’ #jesusislord,” she recently posted on Instagram.
The Christian actress continued, “I know that the Holy Spirit gives us the fruit of the Spirit when we’re in Christ: joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. And so, I feel as..because God gives each and every one of us self-control, that’s something we need to have when we’re in those hot topics and divisive conversations.”
Bure continued, “A lot of times, I know our emotions can want to jump out first, but it’s so important to represent Christ well, and I think that means taking a pause, taking a breath, take a beat, consider the other perspective, where they’re coming from. Take a second to pray and then speak your voice, speak your opinion.”
“But I think just that calmness in the very beginning really helps when you take that, that, that beat, and that breath because I don’t think that anyone’s ever going to change their opinion, when you yell at them or bark at them and tell them how awful they are for how they’re thinking,” the actress concluded.
Bure’s brother, Kirk Cameron has also called on Christians to be bold in their faith during this year’s election cycle. “[If] the family of faith does not show up and vote their values, well, that just leaves a great big vacuum, and others will gladly rush in to fill the void, and then you end up burning the whole thing down from the inside,” Cameron said. “I believe with all my heart that it is and that God did not create us and rescue us through the Gospel to be cowards,” Cameron added. “And that we have a birthright of courage, and if we will lean into that courage as people of faith and live out our values and put feet to our faith in love, we can and will realign the nation with Heaven’s values.”
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