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Overview

The following 9-week course will help you and your group think about important and hotly debated laws that are of specific interest to Christians. The course will initiate questions like:

• What does the "separation of church and state" mean to you?
  
• What's our church's policy about sending missionaries to closed countries?
  
• Should jails and prisons focus more on reforming criminals, while punishing them also?
  
• What would a Christian nation look like?
  

Week One

Church and State: Keep Them Separate
We must keep church and state separate—for the sake of the church.

Week Two

Justice: Restoration or Retribution
Is there a biblical principle behind the punishment of those who break the law?

Week Three

Defining Our Role in Politics
How Christians should practice 'right politics.'

Week Four

Culture: Love It, Leave It, or Transform It
Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture is 50 years old—and still has something wise to say to evangelicals.

Week Five

Corporate Integrity Begins at Home
New laws won't prevent another Enron.

Week Six

How Shall We Defend the Pledge of Allegiance?
The real questions to ask about altering the Pledge of Allegiance.

Week Seven

Should Christians Have Power?
Increasing power in politics and popular culture holds great possibilities—and also dangers.

Week Eight

America: A Nation of Pagans or Christians?
Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or are we making great strides for Christ?

Week Nine

God and Government
Is it right for our government to rewrite laws on marriage?

Total number of pages - 93 pages

You have permission to make up to 1,000 copies for use in your local church.