RESOLUTE Citizen: 8,400 Representatives. 13,969 Churches. One Standard.

v4.1 Update — May 19, 2026. Two parallel rails are now wired together. The citizen scorecard (8,400+ representatives, 10 categories, 100 points) now cross-references the MOOP Church Directory, which has grown to 13,969 churches with full 10-dimension theological scoring. 83 sitting and former politicians, justices, and presidents are now linked to the local churches they attend — 43 executive, 31 legislative, 6 judicial — published with verified citations. Where they vote and where they worship, on one page.

Prior v4.0 changes (still in effect): 7 categories → 10 (Economic Stewardship, Industry Capture & Sovereignty, Election Integrity added). "Religious Liberty" renamed Christian Liberty. PCH/CBG retired as a label; substance absorbed into Family & Child Sovereignty + Christian Liberty. Full rubric: scoring-system.html ↗

If you can't name the people who govern your city, your county, and your state — and tell me where they stand on marriage, life, and the Second Amendment — then you're not keeping watch for your household. You're just hoping someone else does it for you.

That's not how a watchman on the wall operates in a world God commanded us to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue.

What Is the RESOLUTE Citizen Scorecard?

RESOLUTE Citizen is a 10-category, 100-point Christian voter scorecard covering over 8,400 representatives and candidates across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It examines Governors, U.S. Senators, State legislators, City council members, County supervisors, and even the Executive Branch and Judicial branch personnel. These are the people who actually write the laws that shape your kids' schools, your property taxes, your gun rights, and your community's posture toward God.

Every candidate is scored across ten categories, each pulling from multiple primary sources, grounded in a Historically Orthodox, Reformed Christian framework and the conviction that America was founded on Protestant Christian principles — and that governance should reflect those principles, not apologize for them. The categories are organized into two tiers because God comes before country — that's not just a slogan, it's the structural weighting of the rubric:

✝ God First — 60 points (6 categories × 10)

🇺🇸 America First — 40 points (4 categories × 10)

Categories 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10 are the ones most scorecards won't touch. That's not an accident. Most "Christian" scorecards score what's politically safe to score in 2026 — and stay silent on the corporate-state captures that the GOP establishment quietly profits from. This isn't a neutrality project. This is a Kingdom tool.

How Scoring Works

Each category contains 5 True/False questions. A "True" answer aligned with biblical governance earns +2 points. Each category max is 10. Total max: 100 — weighted 60 God First / 40 America First.

The 60/40 split is the editorial weapon. A candidate who scores 56 God First / 8 America First is doing a different thing than one who scores 12 God First / 38 America First. The two visible subtotals tell voters which kind of representative they're actually electing — old single-number scorecards couldn't surface that difference.

Scores translate to old-school letter grades: A (90–100), B (80–89), C (70–79), D (60–69), F (below 60). When you see a candidate at 91/100, you know they're an A. When you see 47/100, you know they're failing — same intuition you brought to every report card you ever signed.

Two rules govern everything:

Rejection of Neutrality. There is no middle ground on abortion. There is no "moderate" position on whether marriage is between a man and a woman. Candidates don't get credit for being politely silent. Silence is a position — and we score it accordingly.

Evidence-First. We don't focus primarily on party platforms, PAC endorsements, or campaign promises for the evidence. We use voting records, official statements, campaign websites, social media posts, and even live debates or city council meeting footage. If a candidate says they're pro-life but voted to expand abortion access, the vote is what we count. Every scored candidate has source links on their profile page so you can verify it yourself.

What Makes This Different

You might be thinking, "There are other Christian scorecards." You're right. Here's why this one exists anyway.

Heritage Action and FRC Action score federal legislators — useful, but your state senator and county supervisor have more direct impact on your daily life than your congressman does.

• 8,400+ representatives — federal, state, local, executive, and judicial — with individual profile pages for every single one
• 13,969 churches in our parallel theological directory, scored on the same conservative-orthodox 10-dimension rubric — cross-referenced to 83 of the most prominent political figures' actual local churches
• Issues module with per-state ballot analysis so you know what's on your ballot before you walk in
• Deep local coverage for Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Stafford — built from actual city council meeting evidence; which will soon expand to every locality
• Finally; ours receives and analyzes feedback from website visitors. You want to make your voice heard; submit your hot take and we'll listen and note it on our website!

Here's what the scorecard looks like in action — a sample from Virginia's local officials:

Live data from the RESOLUTE Citizen scorecard — click any candidate to view their full profile with source links.

Where They Worship: Citizen × Church Cross-Reference

A scorecard tells you how someone votes. The MOOP Church Directory tells you where they kneel on Sunday. We've now cross-referenced both, because both matter and they don't always agree.

As of the May 19, 2026 update, 83 sitting and former federal officials are linked to specific local churches in our directory — with verified citations from credible journalism (Greensboro News & Record, Washington Post, Associated Press, Politico, individual church bulletins). The directory itself has grown to 13,969 churches, each scored on the same conservative-orthodox 10-dimension rubric we apply to politicians: Christology, Scripture, Gender, Leadership, Soteriology, Cultural posture, Preaching, Mission, Men's Discipleship, and Denominational alignment.

The cross-reference works both directions:

• Look up a politician → see their church. Bob Dole attended National Presbyterian in DC. Dwight Eisenhower was baptized there only weeks into his presidency. Sam Ervin's funeral was held at Morganton First Baptist. The Bush family was Episcopal at St. John's. Joe Biden and JFK at Holy Trinity Catholic in Georgetown. Each entry carries a source URL.
• Look up a church → see which public figures attend. 68 churches in the directory carry at least one notable-attendee record. That includes congressional leaders, governors, justices, and conference speakers (David Platt at McLean Bible, John MacArthur at Grace Community Sun Valley, Mark Dever at Capitol Hill Baptist DC, J.D. Greear at The Summit Durham, Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Matthews PCA, and 60+ more).
• Cross-network signals. 7 major Reformed-evangelical networks are now tracked as cross-listings (9Marks, TGC, Acts 29, Founders, Sovereign Grace Churches, Pillar Network, Trinity Foundation Registry). 7,474 churches carry at least one network tag; 1,262 are listed across multiple networks. So when a politician's home church appears in 9Marks and Founders and a Reformed-Baptist confessional registry, that's signal worth noticing.

This isn't gossip. It's accountability. If a Senator claims to be a Bible-believing Christian but his home congregation has a female senior pastor, signed the 2018 Revoice statement, and scores red on our rubric for cultural drift — the citizen weighing his vote deserves to know that. Conversely, if a politician's home church is solid orthodox-Reformed and rates green across all 10 dimensions, that earns him standing the scorecard alone couldn't.

Browse the cross-reference at /directory-politicians.html  ·  Browse network listings at /directory-networks.html

The Fredericksburg Deep Dive

When we started scoring Fredericksburg-area officials using primary sources — not party labels, not endorsements, but actual votes, actual statements, actual social media — the results were jarring.

Chuck Frye — Fredericksburg City Councilman. Ran as reasonable and community-focused. Our research uncovered his gun buyback program that collected over 200 firearms. If you care about the Second Amendment, that's not a policy difference. That's disarmament.

Will Mackintosh — Fredericksburg City Council. Endorsed by the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund. That's not a rumor. That's a public endorsement from an organization whose stated mission is electing LGBTQ+ candidates and allies. If his campaign didn't mention it, we did.

Tara Durant — Virginia Delegate. Made national news for confronting her school board over explicit content in school libraries. Many conservatives assumed she was an ally. Then she cast a YES vote on marriage equality in the General Assembly. Primary sources don't care about your assumptions.

And then there are the two ends of the spectrum — both men who call themselves Christians:

A Baptist deacon who scores 62. A Baptist pastor who scores 0. The collar doesn't override the record. This is why primary sources matter. This is why party labels are insufficient. And this is why every Christian man needs to do his homework before he votes.

God First, Because Country Is Downstream of Conviction

You'll notice "God First" is the louder tier, not just listed first — it carries 60 of the 100 points. That's deliberate.

Mark 12:30 — love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength first. Matthew 6:33 — seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things will be added. Country is downstream of conviction. A nation full of citizens who score 100 on America First but 0 on God First is not the republic the Founders built — it's a self-worshiping empire one generation from collapse. The scorecard's weighting makes that loud and visible.

That's also why Election Integrity is a God First category in v4.0, not an America First sub-question. If your vote isn't verifiably secure and accurately counted, then it doesn't matter where your candidate stands on abortion, marriage, or the Second Amendment. The legitimacy of the entire process is in question — and prioritizing policy positions while ignoring whether elections are honest is like locking the front door while the back wall is missing. A RESOLUTE citizen doesn't just vote. He verifies that his vote counts. He demands transparency from his election officials. He knows the chain of custody for every ballot in his precinct.

America First — the 40-point lower tier — means the republic itself is functioning before we argue about what it should do, that our borders mean something, that our young men aren't sent to die in undeclared wars, and that no foreign lobby or industrial cartel owns the rooms where our laws get written. All four America First categories serve the God First loyalty above them. None of them stand alone.

How to Use the Scorecard

Print it. Share it with your men's group. Bring it to the polling booth. Send it to your pastor. This isn't secret knowledge — it's public record, organized for men who actually want to use it.

Three Modules, One Mission

RESOLUTE Citizen is one of three assessment tools built for the men of U.S.M.C. Ministries. Each one targets a domain where Christian men are called to lead:

All three are accessible from the Mission page. The mission is the whole man — citizen, husband, father. Not one at the expense of the others.

The Call

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." — Proverbs 29:2

You are not called to be confused at the ballot box. You are not called to vote by yard sign or party loyalty or name recognition. You are called to know. To discern. To lead your family into the voting booth with the same conviction you bring to the dinner table and the prayer closet.

8,400+ representatives. 13,969 churches. Ten categories. One hundred points. Sixty God First. Forty America First. Every source linked. Every score earned. Where they vote and where they worship — on one page.

Know your candidates. Know their churches. Vote with conviction, worship with discernment.

Read the full v4.0 rubric →  ·  All 50 questions are public. Every disqualifier documented. Every adjustment explained.

"Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love." — 1 Corinthians 16:13–14

Adam "MOOP" Johns is a Christ-following husband and father, retired US Marine, military aviator, and combat veteran (21 years of service), NASM-certified personal trainer, and men's discipleship coach who has been investing in the formation of men for over 25 years. He holds an M.Div. from Liberty University and founded U.S.M.C. Ministries — Uniting, Serving, Mentoring & Counseling — in Fredericksburg, VA.