Someone please stop the crazy train so that I can get off! And, whether or not you choose the right or left side of the tracks, I'm inviting you to jump off with me.
Don't get me wrong. Although I am deep red in my politics as an American I am pretty blue in my face as a Christian. Why? Because I'm tired of holding my breath waiting for American evangelicals to realize that this country is not going to be converted to Christ politically. If just half of the tight, right and mostly white Republican believers devoted a quarter as much time reaching their neighbors for Christ as they did watching Fox News then maybe we could make some real progress as a church and as a nation. And the same goes for you Christian Democrats out there (although you can insert MSNBC or CNN in this analogy if you'd like.)
Our politics flow out of our worldview which flows out of our theology which flows out of our relationship with Christ. So if we want to truly influence politics then we must, first and foremost, influence others to embrace Jesus as their Savior. Then we must plunge them into a passionate pursuit of God through prayer, worship and obedience to His Word.
The real boogeyman is not the President, a political party, the homosexuals or an Alaskan icon in high heels who can see Russia from her front porch. Satan is the real boogeyman. And I believe that he is doing everything he can in his power to get Christians distracted. For the right-leaning Christians (like me) he is trying to get us to worship at the altar of Glenn Beck rather than Jesus Christ. He is seeking to get us to hate the President instead of pray for him. He is trying to get us to seek a political solution to a spiritual problem.
Source: Christian Post | Greg Stier
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