This book is a short essay on Christian political responsibili-ty. It is also a study guide. The purpose is to offer a rea-soned argument in support of organized Christian service in the political arena. The book is designed for adults with a fairly high degree of interest in the relationship between Christian faith and political responsibility

Proper Christian faith concerns all of life. It has no limited meaning that can be isolated from the political, agricultural, economic, and artistic lives of Christians and non-Christians. Likewise, politics is never purely secular from a Biblical point of view. Nothing in this creation (in this world or this age) has a life and meaning of its own, independent of the Creator's will and purpose.

What we must explore is the integral character of human life in this world. Political life marufests the faith people have, the gods they serve. And the faith by which people live contains within itself an attitude toward politics. Is it part of our problem as Christians that we have too narrow a faith and too secular a view of politics?