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After receiving 2024’s Distinguished Christian Statesman Award, Senator Josh Hawley spoke about the threat to the nuclear family and the importance of faith in our nation.
From The Christian Post. A prominent United States senator is warning that the nuclear family is āunder assaultā as he points to faith as a unifying force rather than a divisive one.
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āThe nuclear family, I think, is pretty clearly under assault,ā said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in a speech Wednesday at the Museum of the Bible. āItās under assault from many corners. Itās under assault from a bunch of our popular culture, but also ā¦ weāre sitting in Washington, D.C., we can probably see the Capitol out those windows and itās under assault from policy and from our government. I mean, we have a tax code that penalizes marriage. It doesnāt reward it, it penalizes it.ā
āWe have policy upon policy that makes it harder to raise children. We have a radical Left in this country that now wants the decisions about how to raise children to be made by [the] government, not to be made by parents,ā he added. Hawley attributed the hostility toward the nuclear family to ādecades and decades of denigrating the familyā and ādecades and decades of saying that there really are not a lot of differences between men and women.ā
Hawley made the remarks about the nuclear family at a luncheon hosted by theĀ D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship, which describes itself as an organization set up to āsupport, equip, and empower Christian statesmanship and cast vision for the next generation of Christian leaders in the halls of government.ā
The ministry, a project of the Florida-based Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, presented Hawley with the Distinguished Christian Statesman Award. It has handed out the award annually to an elected official seen as embodying the characteristics of a Christian statesman since 1996.
As he spoke with Center for Christian Statesmanship Executive Director William Russell after receiving the award, Hawley lamented that popular culture āsends to men the message that they are everything that is wrong with this country and the world.ā He suggested a different approach. āWe need to tell men that they are vitally needed,ā he said. āWe need to say to young men, you have a responsibility to get married, have a family, be a contributor and fulfill the God-given role that He has for you.ā
āEvery man and every woman has a God-given destiny on their life, a call on their life,ā he insisted. Hawley maintained that popular culture should be telling men, āWe need you. We need you desperately, and you can leave a legacy, a legacy for your family, a legacy that will change this country. But to do that, we need you to step up and take on responsibility, not shirk responsibility.ā
Hawley also discussed his bookĀ Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs. He identified the purpose of the book as to help his three young children understand āwhatās it mean to be a husband, whatās it mean to be a father, why is it that God calls us to do that, whatās it mean to go out there and shoulder responsibility?ā
āIt started in that way. And what I did in the book is I just went to the Bible and just walked through stories of the men in the Bible who got called and used,ā he added. āNone of them perfect, but all of them powerful because they had a powerful Lord, because they were willing to follow the Lord wholeheartedly.ā
Hawley expressed concern that popular culture and the media are āso out of touch with the Scripture, theyāre so out of touch with our history. Weāve got to take that message of biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, the great blessing that that is, the legacy that it leaves, weāve got to take that, I think, to the whole country.ā
āWe often hear this lie from the Left that religion divides America,ā Hawley added, pushing back on the idea. āThe Leftās attempt to eradicate religion divides America. Thatās whatās divisive. Faith actually is a great unifier in our national life.ā
Proclaiming that āfaith is what holds the country together,ā Hawley characterized āthe pursuit of worship of the Lord according to your conscienceā as āa shared bedrock belief of Americans,ā adding, āWeāve got to be bold in proclaiming that again and not afraid.ā
Hawley cited the worship restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns as evidence of āhostility towards the witness of the Church, towards the witness of faith that permeates much of the governing class in this country.ā
āAnd in that context, the Church cannot be silent. But also, the Church is the bearer of truth. We hold the hope of the world. How dare we be quiet. Ever. Weāve got to bring that hope to the world in winsome ways, in welcoming ways, sometimes in forceful ways when we have to say to those in power, āWhat youāre doing is wrong.āā
Reflecting on his Christian upbringing, Hawley said, āI canāt remember a time when I didnāt know about Jesus Christ.ā He praised his parents for giving him āthe greatest gift that any parent can give, which is to introduce me at an early age to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.ā
āI can still remember sitting on my dadās knee when I was 5 and praying to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and then at 12, making a more public, mature confession of faith,ā he recalled. Hawley expressed gratitude that he experienced āthe incredible gift of a Christian home, to have the gift of being taught the scriptures at an early age growing up in a believing community.ā
As his remarks came to a close, Hawley elaborated on what he views as his calling as a Christian statesman. Noting that āThe United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world because the United States is founded on the truths of the Bible,ā he declared, āIāve got to be true to that reality, to that history, to the foundational principles of our Constitution.ā
āI took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. That means also defending the principles, the ideals and the realities on which that Constitution is founded. And the witness of the Bible is absolutely foundational to all of that.ā
In an interview with The Christian Post, Russell portrayed Hawley as the ideal candidate to receive the Distinguished Christian Statesman Award. āHawley is a wonderful representation of what a Christian statesman ā¦ should be,ā he said. āHe has his priorities in line: his faith, his family and his work. That shows through the work that heās doing right now on Capitol Hill. But he also is resolute in his beliefs.ā
Stressing that the award is designed for āsomeone whoās going to stand on principle, someone whoās going to still be loving and kind but is not going to back down,ā Russell contended that Hawley is ānot one of the fireball throwers thatās going to call ad hominem attacks on Democrats or whomever,ā but rather āsomebody whoās going to stand on principle and heās going to live that out, talk that out.ā
Past recipients of the Distinguished Christian Statesman Award include then-Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, who would later become the U.S. Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom, and then-Rep. Mike Pence, who would later become vice president. Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have also been honored with the award.
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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Josh Hawley, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127058628.
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“Hawley expressed gratitude that he experienced the incredible gift of a Christian home, to have the gift of being taught the scriptures at an early age growing up in a believing community.ā
Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Matthew 21:16 āDo You hear what these children are saying?ā they asked. āYes,ā Jesus answered. āHave you never read: āFrom the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise?”
Matthew 7: 7-11 Effective Prayer
āKeep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
āYou parentsāif your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
John 14:13-14 Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Dear Lord, You are Father, Savior and You are the Power in my prayer. I praise You for families, they are Your design. I praise You for children, in them You have ordained praise and established strength. I praise You for Josh Hawley and all the faithful men and women serving in and seeking to serve in leadership roles. I pray they will be influential in these positions and kept there in Your favor. My prayer this morning is for the countless who did not receive the gift of a Christian home. I am asking Father, please give them the Bread of Life and let them experience all the good gifts that follow. Jesus tell us He will do whatever we ask in His Name so that You will be glorified in Him. I am asking. We know Godly governing is to Your glory and for the good of our nation. I am asking for this and so much more in the Name above all Names, Jesus Christ. Amen
I thank God for Senator Josh Hawley upholding his Christian faith and proclaiming the personal relationship he has with Jesus and understanding the need to promote traditional family in our Nation. I think this articles message needs to be read and understood by many citizens in our churches and societies in America. He and other political leaders will be in my prayers. I enjoyed reading this and it’s so timely. We need the Lord to save America and this encouraged me to continue to pray and ask the Lord to strengthen my faith. God bless you all!
there are many things that people have concerns or worries about at this time, you are however at a place where prayer is ongoing as you know and that is a good thing, is there anything that you need prayer for or would like other people to pray with you, I’m pretty sure many on here would