As you know if you read this blog, I was not a supporter of Barack Obama. However, he won fair and square and will become the next President of the United States of America. I admire him, and wish him well. I will pray for him and support him as far as my conscience will allow.

My thoughts the last few days have been more along the lines of how will life, work and the living out of an orthodox Christian faith be affected in the next four years? I don’t have lots of answers yet, but here are a few others who have been thinking along the same lines, and coming up with some good early thoughts that I appreciate and find helpful.

Michael Hyatt - President of Thomas Nelson Publishers – My Four Commitments to Barack Obama

Cal Thomas – syndicated writer and columnist – Transforming Culture

Ajith Fernando – National Director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka – Thoughts After the US Elections

• In the history of the church, sometimes when she faced some challenges to its beliefs and practices, she responded with restatements and demonstrations that presented the Christian truths challenged in a more beautiful, clear, appealing, persuasive and practical light. I pray that this would be the response to possible challenges coming to our belief in the sanctity of heterosexual marriage and the sanctity of human life.
• We must always battle for legislation that accords with the plan of the Creator of humanity. Surely, the Creator’s plan alone is what is best for humans. Therefore, legislators must continue their battle for social righteousness. However, no amount of bad legislation can overcome the power, the joy, the appeal and the goodness of biblical morality demonstrated in the lives of Christians. We now have the challenge of demonstrating this afresh.
• Whether we like it or not, people in the non-western world associate Christianity with the USA. Recently there has been a growing sense among people in the non-western world that the USA is not concerned about or sensitive to their feelings, sentiments and convictions. There even has been a sense that the US thinks it is superior to others. Because of the unhealthy association of the USA with Christianity, this sense has negatively affected people’s attitude towards the gospel. Insensitivity is alien to the Christian spirit, as Christians are those who become all things to all people so that by all means they may save some (1 Cor. 9:22). Superiority is alien to the Christian spirit because this spirit springs from grace—resulting in the acknowledgment that all our merit is undeserved—and issues in Christians always in humility counting others better than themselves (Philip. 2:3).

Christianity Today – The Evangelical Electoral Map (This is interesting)