Where, in the Constitution, do we find the following words “a wall of separation between church and state”? Let me save you some time. We don’t. Those words are not in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights.
That phrase was penned by Thomas Jefferson in a letter he wrote to the Baptist Association of Danbury CT on New Year’s Day, 1802. The association feared he would declare the Congregational church as the official church of the United States.
Jefferson assured the United States would not establish an official state religion and fight for each person’s right to worship in how God led them, “thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
The original intent of the law was not to keep the church off the government’s lawn, but instead to keep the government off the church’s lawn.
The constitution states there will be a freedom OF religion not a freedom FROM religion. It was a God inspired document, written by men who longed to honor God with an expectation of God’s people living it’s truths and precepts out in the marketplace of life.
Should followers of Christ be active in the government? ABSOLUTLEY. We are to be salt and light. Salt can only do its work when it leaves the saltshaker and light shines the brightest in the dark place.