Months after the cancellation of
their HGTV show – because of their pro-life and pro-family views – Jason and
David Benham aren’t worried … even as their business suffers from the backlash.
According to them, the greater
opportunity to talk about God’s Kingdom is worth the trade-off.
“Absolutely, the trade-off is worth
it. And it’s really not much of a
tradeoff now, especially when you read Hebrews, Chapter 11. The men and women of faith who were sawn in
two, boiled in oil, their children were taken from them. It says they refused to accept their release,
then to deny the Lord. They really are
the great cloud of witnesses who are cheering us on,” David told LifeSiteNews at the annual Values Voters
Summit. “It is an honor, with an eternal
perspective, to lose anything for Jesus.”
Jason says that the brothers “do
encourage entrepreneurs. When your
business is really doing well, be smart with it.” He said that while “you make riches, which is
money that you make one time; convert that to wealth, which is residual means
of income, so that you can actually go out and talk like we can talk” without
fearing the loss of clients, of business, and of income. “We don’t have to be beholden to anybody.”
When it comes to how Christians
should consider public policy, David says that all Christians should be
involved in the political process. “The earth
is the Lord's,” he explained. “It’s
called the Lordship of Jesus Christ. He
is now King over your finances; He is King and Lord over how you treat your
wife; He is King over how you handle your children; King over what your eyes
look at, what your ears hear; He’s King of all.
It’s the same way politically. You
have fiscal responsibility—the Scripture is very clear about work ethic; it’s
very clear about individual responsibility to work. When it comes to your foreign policy, the
Scripture is very clear; it says ‘Greater love has no man than this, to lay
down his life for his friends.’ So it’s
very important that we arm ourselves against evil,” continued David. “Government is not the answer to man’s
problems; God is the answer to man’s problems. And when you remove God, you have to replace
it with something, and government will always replace that. So that’s why we have this huge paradigm shift
from little government, where God was very involved in our country’s culture,
to now big government, where God is removed and now government replaces God.”
“We definitely feel as though you
need government,” explained Jason. “God’s
role is to provide and to protect. And
that’s what He does for us as individuals. And He does that through the government of the
Church. And the Church is the
legislative body of Jesus Christ here on earth. So wherever Christ goes in the heart of the
individual, this is where His rule is set up. And that’s practical, in terms of business; in
terms of education. So what we say is
that the role of a physical government is to provide a basis of liberty through
which we can then go out and restrain evil that good may flourish; then protect
that liberty.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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