Dear Sir,
While it is true that Christians should show their faith at work, I believe the advice given in the article ‘Christianity and Westminster’ in the September issue of en is both dangerous and wrong. Choosing a career and deciding where the Lord wants us to work is hard enough and it’s very tempting to go for something where we believe we can make a difference to the world.
Under the heading ‘Christians must get involved’ none of the examples chose their position, nor did they plan a career ‘to make a difference’. Joseph was thrown into a pit, sold to slave traders and ended up in Pharaoh’s palace where God used him to great effect. He didn’t choose it as a career; similarly with Daniel.
To use these as examples to encourage young people to consider a career in politics is disingenuous in the extreme. Politics, even in a democracy, is essentially a very dirty business. If you don’t follow the party line, you have no career.
Paul told us to pray for those that rule over us, not join them, and he lived in a much more repressive regime than we do. Even so, we find no exhortations in the Scriptures to Christians to join the rulers so as to influence them in any way.
Have Christians made any difference in parliament since God used Wilberforce to abolish slavery? I haven’t noticed.
Yours sincerely,
