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Unique Mission
The CCS has critical elements not found in
other organizations, that we believe uniquely empower us to help
accomplish the mission of upholding God's standards for civil
government in the United States of America.
The
main two elements that we have which other
organization's lack are:
1)
We are explicitly Christian in both name and by creed, with
safeguards against co-option by non-Christian political
organizations.
An
organization that accepts only Christians as members has a much
better chance of staying true to a Godly mission than one which does
not forthrightly exclude unbelievers from its ranks. All
members of the society must agree with our
confession, which is an orthodox Christian creed largely based
on a subset of the Apostle's Creed.
We
believe that many Christians have joined organizations where they
thought the "unstated" goal of the organization was to
advance God's standards for government. Unstated goals can be a
false lure. Often, they have been frustrated to discover
that their assumptions about what the "unstated" goal of
the organization was were incorrect. Staying true to a
mission of serving God is difficult enough when that is your
stated goal. What are the odds an organization will stay true to a
mission which it does not even formally name?
It
has also been our observation that political parties are great at
using people and co-opting organizations. Someone
might start this or that group to keep a party "true to
its grassroots". Then too often what happens is instead
of the organization influencing the party, the party influences
the organization. The party uses the organization as a tool
to drive up voter turnout while never getting around to the issues that the organization was
first concerned about. As leaders of the party worm their
way into leadership positions in the organization, loyalties
become divided. The organization becomes more about making the
party look good than advancing the organization's
interests. At that point, it has been co-opted.
To
guard against this, we permit no member to serve two masters, vis-à-vis
political parties. No member of the CCS is
permitted to be a county, district, state, or national committee
member of any party that does not recognize the Lordship of Jesus
Christ both formally and informally. We will not be hijacked
by any political party which refuses to submit itself to the
authority of Christ and His Word.
2)
We can do more than fume when the parties fail to serve our
interests. If necessary, we will back independents, minor parties,
or even candidates running under our own banner.
Sad
to say, many fine organizations have a critical weakness.
They hire out the critical job of selecting candidates to one of two
secular political organizations. When the two secular parties both fail to produce candidates
acceptable to Christians, these organizations are stuck.
They are able to do nothing
to address the root problem of a breakdown in the candidate
selection process. We, God help us, are
willing. Are you?
Part
of the CCS's mission is to recruit and support candidates for
those offices where the two party system has failed to produce
worthy ones. That means we can do more than fume from the
outside if our chosen party fails to recruit suitable
candidates. We can sponsor independents, minor party
candidates, or run them under our own banner if need be.
Where the two parties produce suitable candidates, we will back
them. We are not partisan, or to be more exact, our
partisanship is for Christ and His way of governance.
The
willingness to find and back our own candidates is the final
missing ingredient of governmental reform. Until now,
Christians had to go through secular organizations to get their candidates
elected. We have "hired out" to unbelievers the job of
electing the "right candidates" to office. Such men have
an uncanny knack for fervently backing those who will put allegiance
to party first while leaving those whose first loyalty is to their
Savior without support at critical times. This encourages
men with divided interests to tell us what we want to hear in
public, while behind closed doors they assure others that they
don't mean it. No wonder leader after leader that we thought
represented our interests has let us down.
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