Emphasis Preaching Journal

Jimmy Carter was the first person elected to be President who admitted he was "born again." Under suspicion by much of the nation to whom such language about "a personal experience of Jesus" was unfamiliar, Mr. Carter knew that some feared he would be overly religious. Like all presidents, he did include a religious note in his inaugural address, but his was most brief. He simply referred to a text a teacher had taught him: Micah 6:1-8.