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INVITATION: Weekly meetings - in person + Zoom

Proverbs 15:22  Without counsel purposes (plans) are disappointed:
but in the multitude of counsellors they are established (plans succeed). 
Matthew 18:19  Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father
which is in heaven. 20  For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them. 

Government needs more wisdom - YOUR wisdom

Meeting weekly with a state lawmaker will benefit you, the lawmaker, and your state. If you have written to, emailed, or called a lawmaker with your opinion about an issue, the lawmaker may ask you to meet with others who care that much, so that participants may learn from each other, test their theories, reason with other with the goal of separating facts from guesses, resulting in sounder advice for the lawmaker with wider public support than individuals can achieve who are not interacting with each other.

The benefit to the lawmaker:

• The lawmaker can explain hard decisions to the group and benefit from a team of advisors that will think about, discuss, and study them together.

• When facts need to be established, presenting the need to a group will turn up individuals with the needed special knowledge, or who know who to approach, and how to approach, those with the needed knowledge.

• Political decisions must be not only about what is right, but about what the public will understand and support. Group discussions can establish both far better than a single lawmaker can. Group members can further ask friends or family their view of issues, and those asked will be more inclined to trouble themselves to think about it, when they know a lawmaker actually needs their view and the survey is not just a cover for asking for a donation.

• When the support of other lawmakers is needed, or their positions need to be established, a group can multiply a lawmaker's own ability to make contacts and win them over. A group can also multiply a lawmaker's ability to reason with lobbyists, activists, and other community leaders.

• By reasoning with each other and progressing towards consensus with each other and with a lawmaker, the group will become much better informed than is possible from news articles geared to average readers, and that support for important but complicated details will make it possible for a lawmaker to take stands that get the details right.

• "The devil is in the details." The devil needs to be driven out of the details. A lawmaker fighting for all the right details which bad people oppose and good people don't support because they don't understand them can accomplish nothing. But to the extent a group studies them together and supports the lawmaker's fight, the lawmaker is free to fight hard without worrying about losing the next election for doing the right thing.

The benefit to group members:

• Members become better informed than is possible from news geared to average readers.

• Members become able to do far more good than is possible from merely attending rallies, donating money and time, etc.

• Members experience reasoning with each other even when they disagree in a setting of patience and love - a rare opportunity - which develops relationship skills valuable at home, at work, in defending our freedoms, and defending our faith.

• Members fulfill the mandate of 1 Timothy 2:1-2 to not only pray for our leaders [so that we may lead an honest, godly life without going to jail], but to petition our representatives to base our laws upon the principles of Heaven instead of Hell, to intercede for those harmed by our public policies, and to thank lawmakers who serve us well. Following the lesson of James 2:14-17, members will do these things to the extent they can, rather than expect God to do what they can do so they can do nothing.]

Simple Rules

1. The group must agree on its own rules. They may draw from Robert's Rules of Order. They may draw from the Bible. Topics should be established by vote. Meetings should be decent and orderly, 1 Corinthians 14:40.

2. All should have freedom of speech to inspire by the highest principles they know, subject to rules evenly applied. 1 Corinthians 14:31.

3.Topics should especially focus on actions the group will consider taking together; results, not talk that goes nowhere. "Good works." Matthew 5:16.

4. Discussion should be respectful, peaceful, gentle, merciful, wise. James 3:17

5. Participation should be open to people of all faiths and political persuasions who are willing to reason with each other respectfully, reasonably, and intelligently. We can have zero tolerance for nonsense, yet still have infinite love. 1 Corinthians 14:24.

For more ideas from Scripture see: Bible_Guidelines_for_Relationships