Should a Christian Protest, was the Question

We have a right to protest in our country but that does not mean that we should do so. We have no examples in the Bible of protesting against the government as we do in our day. There were no elections either except in modern times.

To answer your question Annie, I don't know if there is any Biblcial prohibition against "redress of grievances" with citizens against a government as we have had for most of the life of our country.

I know we are in the end times in which most things are going to be "ragingly insane", to think we can run around continually putting out brush fires only to have another one rise up, suggests to me that our mission is the gospel in a time when people need Christ more than they need the freedom to do as they please.

We could waste a lot of time marching and screening for our rights while missing our opportunity to bring the gospel to the lost right before the rapture.

My husband and I were involved in protests against Pornography and abortion back in the '70s. We were very busy attempting to put out the fires that were rising up here and there. Back then there were far fewer fires than there are now. We believed we were a basically "Christian" nation and could win some battles against evil.

The fact was that we were new believers and thought we could make a difference. What we found out was that the only real difference we could make was in the lives of individuals if they responded to the gospel. Then new believers would be changed, they would no longer walk lawlessly.

Even if we could change a law here or there and the people followed them, they would still go to hell if they did not trust in Christ.

It wasn't until we became more mature in our walk that we realized our mission as believers was to bring the gospel to the unsaved.

The short answer is that I see no mandate in the scriptures to protest and I see no mandate to not protest when the right exists. My thrust is to bring the gospel rather than putting out brush fires continually without any time left over to bring the gospel.