WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT PROMOTING BIBLICAL VALUES?
“The religious right wants to tell people how to live.” A. Do we have the right to dictate morality to others? – The answer to this question is “no.” We, as individuals, and as a church do not have the right to establish moral standards for the rest of the world. People should never be forced to live to meet someone else’s standard of morality. However, that having been said, Christians everywhere are called on by the Lord to live lives that are a head and shoulders above those around them. We cannot tell others how they should live, but we have the obligation before the Lord to show them how men ought to live, 1Pet. 1:16. (Ill. The reason many people will not go to church today is because they do not want to turn out like us! That is a sad, but true fact!) While we cannot tell the world how to live, we must ever show them and we must be quick to take our stand with the right and stand up for what the Bible says is true. We cannot force our standards on the world, but we must let them