2 Kings 2:19-22
“And the men of the city said to Elisha, ‘Please notice, the site of the city is good, as my lord sees, but the waters are bad; and the ground is barren.’
And he said, ‘Bring a new dish to me, and put salt it.’ And they brought it to him.
And he went out to the source of the waters and threw salt there, and said, ‘Thus says the LORD, I have given healing to these waters; there shall not be death and barrenness there any more.’ And the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.”
Service delivery has to do with the physical needs and infrastructure of a city ("the site/situation of the city"). Although this may be important for many when it comes to elections, I believe that their are other more important matters like the morals and values of a city ("the waters"). These are the more weightier matters than service delivery from which we as the Church cannot distance ourselves. Good service delivery is not all.
A case in point is in the Western Cape’s Cape Town Unicity. The DA boasts about their service delivery excellence here. Yet they supported a bill to legalise sex tourism and proposed a Red Light District for Cape Town during the World Cup 2010. Cape Town is known as the gay-capital of Africa and the second largest gay-capital of the world! So much so that the Gay & Lesbian Alliance joined the DA in 2004 instead of contesting the elections on their own. So what's the point of having the best service delivery system in place when, in terms of its morals and spirit, a city is so opened to hell?
Morals and principles are important to God and the Church and therefore cannot be swept under the carpet. This proves that you cannot vote for a party on the basis of good service delivery only. Most political parties are responsible for the following:
1. Voting for the removal of the name or mention of God from the SA Constitution
2. Supporting abortion-on-demand and voting for it in parliament
3. Voting for gay marriages in parliament
4. Opposing capital punishment against murderers
5. Making the education of our children "State-controlled" instead of “Parent-controlled on” (so that we can protect our children from lessons on Evolution, gay-marriages, the good of other religions, worldly cultures and philosophies)
As God’s Church, our stance on such issues can attract either God’s favour or judgement. Therefore, who you vote for is critical to your city's productivity and future destiny in God. I vote for the ACDP because they represent the godly values that I subscribe to.
