We must always obey civil government except where obedience to a government's rules would force us to disobey God.
We should obey every lawful command of whatever civil authority God has placed over us, and when we must disobey it out of conscience, our disobedience should be selective, limited only to that area where obedience to man would be disobedience to God, and still, even in our disobedience, respectful of the civil authority.
While we should pray for government, we should never trust it. It was this concept that drove the founders of America to create an 'inefficient' system with many checks and balances, where Congress is the first branch of government, not the executive, and where the powers not explicitly given to the Federal government in our Constitution are reserved to the state governments and private citizens.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...