If you work on Capitol Hill, you most likely know that President Joe Biden received 81 million votes to be elected to this nation’s highest office in 2020. But did you also know that those 81 million votes constituted only 34 percent of all eligible voters?

And did you further know the total number of people who were registered to vote in 2020 but didn’t, 82 million, exceeded Biden’s total?

There were approximately 240 million Americans eligible to vote in 2020, but only 168 million of them were registered to vote and just 158 million actually cast ballots.

What does all this have to do with being a Christian? Well, as the latest edition of the Colson Center’s “What Would You Say” video series explains, followers of Jesus Christ have a special obligation – to be good stewards of their voice in government.

And there’s another aspect of this: Christians as a group, that is, the church, are, as Family Research Council President Tony Perkins reminds us Martin Luther King said, to be a national conscience:

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

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