Politicians Are Ministers of God
R.C. Sproul on Christians and Politics, Part Three
“A few years ago I was asked to speak at the inaugural prayer breakfast for an incoming governor of Florida. On that occasion I told the governor that he was being ordained as a minister – not as a minister of the church but as a minister of the state. It is God who has ordained the church and the state and their separate divisions of labor. It is not the function of the state to preach the gospel, to do evangelism, or to administer the sacraments; it is not the function of the church to wage war or to have the sword. They are different institutions with different responsibilities, but both have been ordained by God, and both are answerable to God.”
R.C. Sproul, Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sanford: Ligonier Ministries, 2019), 223.
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