"Radical Abandonment to God's Call"—Christian Women Making Inroads in U.S. Government
"People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money."
(Washington, D.C.)—Meet Michele Bachmann, freshman congresswoman from Minnesota. Before she was elected to her government position she prayed outside abortion clinics, was a homeschooling, full-time mom and foster mother to 23 children, and even worked in a fish cannery in Alaska for awhile.
"I learned the value of a dollar," she said. "Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers." (Associated Press/Photo by Paul Sancya)
According to a report in World Magazine, Bachmann credits Francis Schaeffer's book video series, How Should We Then Live? with "saving" her mind. Currently a member of Salem Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minn., she believes that being a Christian and a politician means fighting for individual compassion, noting: "People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money." .
"We must never forget what government is not," says Bachmann. "Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church," adding that for her it all comes down to "radical abandonment to God's call."
