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Election years bring out the worst in us. Never-ending news cycles, partisan divisions, and social media trolling make it hard to feel anything other than frustrated and overwhelmed by what we’re experiencing daily.
For Christians, election season presents an added challenge — one that none of us are up to facing on our own. Believers are called to engage in civic life by advocating for principles that reflect Kingdom values while speaking the truth in love, and holding fast to our unity with others. Doing any one of these three, much less all three at the same time feels overwhelming and impossible — because it is.
As a Christian who’s worked in the political arena for 25 years, I personally can attest to the fact that it’s impossible to live up to God’s expectations of me during an election year. Something always gives — either truth wins and love fails, or vice versa, with our unity inevitably suffering as a result of our failures. Literally every time I do politics in my own strength, I fail miserably. So, it’s no surprise that a question I regularly get is, “How do we stay true to our convictions without compromising God’s command to love and stay unified with those we disagree with, especially in the heat of an election year?”
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For Christians, election season presents an added challenge — one that none of us are up to facing on our own. Believers are called to engage in civic life by advocating for principles that reflect Kingdom values while speaking the truth in love, and holding fast to our unity with others. Doing any one of these three, much less all three at the same time feels overwhelming and impossible — because it is.
As a Christian who’s worked in the political arena for 25 years, I personally can attest to the fact that it’s impossible to live up to God’s expectations of me during an election year. Something always gives — either truth wins and love fails, or vice versa, with our unity inevitably suffering as a result of our failures. Literally every time I do politics in my own strength, I fail miserably. So, it’s no surprise that a question I regularly get is, “How do we stay true to our convictions without compromising God’s command to love and stay unified with those we disagree with, especially in the heat of an election year?”
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What never do politics spiritually alone means
Rather than mimic the ways of the world, our job is to reset the political tone in America
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