Franklin Graham: Nation is Blessed By Trump Cabinet Members' Bible Study

When Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, learned a few weeks ago about Capitol Ministries’ new discipleship Bible study to members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, he was very supportive and publicly posted the following comments:

“It’s very encouraging to know that members of the president’s cabinet gather weekly for prayer.

“Vice President Mike Pence and eight others sponsor the sessions.

“Former NBA player Ralph Drollinger who leads the Bible study said, ‘In terms of a country’s health and direction, when its leaders are seeking God, the nation is in a position to be blessed by God in ways that are ‘far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.’

“He’s absolutely right.”

– Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization. As an evangelist, Franklin has preached to more than 8.1 million people in cities from Johannesburg, South Africa to Tupelo, Mississippi.

What The Bible Teaches About Separation of Church And State

Old Testament Israel was a theocracy – a nation in which God’s people and the State were one, but the New Testament is clear that is not the way nations should be today.

Matthew 22:21 is among many Scriptures that support the institutional separation of The Church from Government:

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”

The Bible teaches that there should be an institutional separation between Church and State, but not an influential separation.

This important distinction is examined in Understanding the Importance of The Separation of Church and State, the Bible study that Ralph Drollinger will teach this week to members of President Donald Trump’s White House Cabinet, Senators, and Representatives in Washington, D.C.

We invite you to read this study along with the leaders of our nation, and learn what the Bible says is the most important contribution the Church can make to the State that influences the way nations are governed.

Click to read Understanding the Importance of The Separation of Church and State.

Bible Study Members

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson

Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Ralph has started Bible studies for the White House Cabinet, the Senate, the House, state legislators, and in foreign nations around the world and now, local government. I highly support this effort. Local government is often the birthplace of those who will become state and national leaders. Providing a firm foundation early in their careers will not only benefit policies in our bedrock communities but will also set these leaders on a firm path as they move to higher office. It is particularly important today because there is a falling away from our Judeo-Christian heritage and the very future of our nation is in jeopardy. We live in troubling times as many try to replace the values and principles that are foundational to the success of our nation. The aforementioned endeavors to engage with civic leaders at the local level right through to the White House will pay tremendous dividends for us and for those who come after us.

Ministry Quotes

Dr. Dan DeShong

As CapMin’s Director of Local Government Ministries, I am seeking qualified candidates to establish weekly Bible studies to city and county elected and appointed public servants across the United States. I also led the first LGM Bible study to city and county commissioners in the greater Sacramento, CA area. I taught the curriculum, Oaks in Office: Biblical Essays for Political Leaders, which contains the most pertinent Bible studies Ralph Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries, has authored to meet the spiritual, personal, and professional needs of Christian legislators over his more than 25 year ministry. Our Sacramento group is still meeting to study the Bible and we are studying Oaks in Office a second time.

The experience was exhilarating to say the least! None of us had any idea that the Bible had so much to say about immigration, parenting, racism, deficit spending, and other contemporary issues. One elected official had planned to leave politics and now he says, “No wonder God has me in this position!“

As Christians, we sort of take biblical precepts and doctrines for granted, but when the issues are broken out in specific chapters like Ralph has done in Oaks in Office, they become very clear and very real.

This first group was pretty excited about this study and will be sharing their story with city and county commissioners around the country. Who knows where God will take this?

Ministries to local government public servants have been planted in California, Texas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, and in dozens of provinces and territories in European nations.

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