Let’s consider some truths about integrity, an issue the Bible has a lot to say about and which will be esp. relevant in the next few months. Integrity is being in complete alignment with one's moral principles which leads one to act accordingly. 1/7

This is why integrity is so often associated with honesty. You cannot have integrity if you don't keep your word or if you act in way that contradict the moral principles you say you stand for.

The trouble with integrity is that it's a virtue for losers (1 Pt 3:13-18). 2/7

People with integrity will lose more than those without it. An example is the acquisition, use, and retention of power (hereafter, AURP). If you stand by your word/principles you'll inevitably lose AURP. You might even suffer and fail to do the “greater good” by losing AURP. 3/7

This is why so few politicians have integrity—they can get elected w/o integrity but not if they lose AURP.

Some Christians want the integrity equivalent of a shabbos goy, a non-Jew who performs certain activities which Jewish law prohibits a Jew from doing on the Sabbath. 4/7

They wrongly believe they can retain their own integrity by supporting/endorsing someone (usually another professed Christian) who will violate integrity on their behalf, so they don’t lose AURP (Rom 3:8). If you support violations of integrity you show *you* lack integrity. 5/7

They wrongly believe they can retain their own integrity by supporting/endorsing someone (usually another professed Christian) who will violate integrity on their behalf, so they don’t lose AURP (Rom 3:8). If you support violations of integrity you show *you* lack integrity. 6/7

If Christians have integrity we will refuse to support, endorse, or promote those who do not—even if it costs us something we value.

This isn't a new teaching—it's biblical. Yet in an age that values power over God's principles, it will likely be considered controversial. 7/7