As Anabaptists interact more freely and frequently with news media, they are faced with greater pressures—internally and externally—to become involved in national and international affairs. Should we be doing more? If so, what is the more we should be doing? This talk is not entirely descriptive (since a small percentage of Anabaptists are involved to one small degree or another politically), but it is more prescriptive as we look at ways non-resistant Christians are and should live consistently, clearly and caringly toward the broader national culture in which we find ourselves.

Prayer for political leaders:

Dear God, thank You for the peace and stability You have granted us. Please move upon the leaders of this nation and help them recognize the responsibility they have before You. I pray for President Biden, Vice President Harris, the Supreme Court justices and all judges across this nation. I pray also for the representatives and senators, both state and national. I lift the governor, the county commissioners, the township supervisors, and all who are in authority, to You. Help them to lead in such a way that we may live quiet and peaceable lives. I pray that You would bring to nothing the counsels of the ungodly, foil the plans of the evil one and let truth prevail. In all these things I pray Your kingdom come and Your will be done in this nation and in every nation on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.