[10] Bømlo was selected to test support for the new party, with defected local Christian Democratic politicians heading their list.

Some saw the party's founding meeting on Moster in Bømlo as symbolic, as it was the original starting point of the Christianization of Norway by King Olaf Tryggvason a thousand years ago.

[9][11] For the 2013 parliamentary election, the party gained additional support from philosopher Nina Karin Monsen,[12] veteran Christian Democratic politician Anita Apelthun Sæle,[13] and Visjon Norge televangelist Jan Hanvold.

[23] The party leader Erik Selle has stated that the West carries "a great deal of the responsibility" for Russia´s attack on Ukraine, and he has suggested that Russia gets to keep the illegally annexed Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea.

[29][30] In 2019, party leader Erik Selle expressed admiration for what he sees as a spiritual and cultural "renaissance" of Christian values in Putin's Russia.