Civic Duties and Christian Ministries are NOT Mutually Exclusive

Christian Exodus (CE) consistently gets objections from Christians like this one:

Your choice to influence society will ultimately meet with failure, because you have decided to stoop to the level of the world in order to bring about your Godly revolution.

We, as Christain people, must influence the world around us one person at a time. We cannot force our faith on others, or establish theocratic rule in order to get what we want.

Do you want the number of abortions to go down? Offer to care for the women and the children who find themselves in the desperate situation of having to make the choice between adoption, abortion, and life.

Many Christians terribly misunderstand the role of government, and the civic responsibilities of Christians. CE does not propose using government to "force our faith on others" nor do we intend to use it to "bring about [our] Godly revolution." I'm always amazed at the words chosen and the concepts created out of thin air by others. Neither of these two accusations can even remotely be derived from anything stated on our website. CE, and everything on our website, is involved in influencing government toward its proper role as a defender of God-given rights and liberties. Our proposals for legislative change exclusively involve defense of liberties and rights, they do not involve using government to force the Gospel on anyone. Even more disconcerting is that the statements quoted above hold the position that Christians have no civic responsibility whatsoever. This is evidenced by the suggestion that our concern regarding abortion should ONLY be to help needy mothers. Do we have no duty to change the government that sanctions such killing? Nowhere does CE suggest that we are not to help expectant mothers contemplating abortion. Christians are to do both individual ministry toward these women AND we're to fulfill our civic duty in enacting legislation to protect the lives of unborn children. Christians who agree with the above quotes suffer from the very frequent misconception that Christian ministries and duties are mutually exclusive. In other words, that we cannot minister to the expectant mother while also enacting legislation to protect innocent children. Of course, that misconception is nonsense, but unfortunately all too prevalent among the body of Christ.

CE is a project created for a specific purpose; namely, to provide Christians the means to fulfill their civic duties. There are plenty of other wonderful organizations enabling Christians to fulfill other ministerial needs - as one example, my wife and I give on a monthly basis to a crisis pregnancy ministry in East Texas that helps young women with the exact issues described above. Just as it is not a crisis pregnancy ministry's purpose to help Christians fulfill their civic duties, it is not CE's purpose to help Christians pursue their other ministries. Demanding that CE be something it was not created to be is like demanding that the crisis pregnancy ministry become a food and clothing shelter for the homeless. No one foolishly demands that other ministries depart from their purpose, so why demand it of Christian Exodus?