As election day comes upon us in a few hours, I found these thoughts from John Piper on the attitude that Christians should take towards the election to be helpful, echoing Tito's words yesterday. He writes concerning voting based on 1 Cor. 7:29-31:

"So it is with voting. We should do it. But only as if we were
not doing it. Its outcomes do not give us the greatest joy when they go
our way, and they do not demoralize us when they don’t. Political life
is for making much of Christ whether the world falls apart or holds
together."

Read the whole thing.

This was written by John Piper in 1993 just before Clinton's inauguration, but applies perhaps even more today:

"My question today is: How can I as a pro-life Christian honor President-elect Bill Clinton when he supports the right to kill
unborn children for any reason up through the age of viability
(24-23-22 weeks and falling), and for emotional health reasons even
after that. We know this because he has expressed his support for
the Freedom of Choice Act which is before Congress and would give
federal sanction to just those "rights" and would take from the
states the right to make many laws protecting the unborn that are
now being proposed.
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You may be aware from media accounts last Fall about a document that was signed by a
number of Evangelical authors along with Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church
leaders called the Manhattan Declaration, and our pastoral team has received
some questions regarding our position on the document.  You can read the document here.   read more »