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It’s intriguing that society today assumes 
the words “pastor” and “politics” should 
never be in the same sentence together.

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Yet our very nation was founded with pastors 
and prayer being an integral part of our 
political structure.

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An early historian noted, “The clergy were 
generally consulted by the civil authorities;

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not infrequently the suggestions from the 
pulpit, on election days and other special 
occasions, were enacted into laws.”

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John Adams went so far as to say, “It is 
the duty of the clergy to accommodate their 
discourse to the times…

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how much soever it may move [the critics.]” 
Perhaps the Bible has much more to say about 
politics than people realize. I’m Mac Hammond, 
and this is the Winner’s Minute.