This is God's Work. Go to it! - Congregation to Pastor about Capitol Ministries' Mission

November 2014

When Ralph Drollinger spoke at the Sunnyside Baptist Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming about the biblical mandate to make disciples of Jesus Christ in the political arena, the congregation prayed about how to reach their state Public Servants.

Then they talked to their pastor.

“They told me they believe God is in this, and they voted to become involved (with Capitol Ministries),” said Max Janzen, senior pastor at Sunnyside. “Then they literally circled me with their hands on me and commissioned me. They said, ‘This is God’s work. Go to it.'”

Pastor Janzen was approved as Ministry Leader to Public Servants in the capitol of the cowboy state at the Nov. 8 meeting of the Capitol Ministries Board of Directors. The vote came after Pastor Janzen completed the required four-day training led by Drollinger, President and Founder of Capitol Ministries.

Pastor Janzen will begin his ministry and weekly Bible studies in 2015. “My church sees this as an investment in our nation,” he said.

Bible Study Members

Senator Kevin Cramer

North Dakota

In the Senate Bible study, we drill down pretty deep. We spend weeks on end if not on a single verse, then on a single chapter, and several weeks on a specific passage to begin to understand intellectually. We, as politicians are naturally intellectually curious, and so to be able to apply that to Scripture with the benefit of good teaching, and the additional benefit of collective wisdom of the participants is very rich. The Bible study also allows us to drill down on theology and doctrine and application of Scripture. Perhaps the most important thing at the end of the day is that we have a source of encouragement, and a source of direction and a source of correction that is really important to the decisions we make as individuals and as an institution.

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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