Actor and outspoken Christian Kirk Cameron recently called on American Christians to get out and perform their civic duties. Cameron highlighted the dire consequences of Christians remaining silent given the state of the nation, where other interests will be represented.
“[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,” he explained. The actor emphasized that God calls on believers to be bold in their faith, urging evangelical Americans to reshape the country.
“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.”
Cameron further spoke about how integral faith is to the fabric of the United States. “I’m amazed at how many people don’t understand the fundamental principles of how nations and governments are run,” he added. “Every nation is built on some set of presuppositions; a worldview, a philosophy of life, a value set, a religion.”
The Christian activist continued, “In the words of Noah Webster, who was one of our founding fathers … he said every civil government is based on some religion or philosophy of life, and the education of that nation will propagate the religion of that nation. He said in America that foundational religion was Christianity, and it was sewn into their hearts for two centuries through the home and school, public and private.”
“So the whole thing — from the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence — only works if you understand that the foundation needs to be the biblical, moral, spiritual values that the founders were standing on when they wrote it. And if that goes away, the whole thing crumbles,” Cameron added, further outlining the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States.
However, Cameron noted that he does not despair, claiming to sense a spiritual revival on the horizon. “I feel the rumblings of revival. People are waking up and parents are saying, you know, our forefathers and foremothers didn’t spill their blood in vain. They didn’t suffer and sacrifice and go through all the things that they did to give us the freest, strongest, most blessed and generous nation in the world for us to just hand it away on our watch,” he said.
“They want to get involved, and they want to know how to overcome their worry, stress, anxiety and fear because the opposition look so big. And that’s what I want to give them in my book is the antidote to fear. And that courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the overcoming of it. It’s feeling afraid and doing the right thing anyway. And there’s reasons why we can do that. And it has to do with history. It has to do with the promises of God in his word and real life stories of people today who are acting bravely and making a massive difference out of their love for God and their love for people,” he asserted.
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