Much of current political debate focuses on fear. Each party preaches that if the other party gets or maintains power, certain disaster will result. While I have my own opinion as to which party comes closer to being correct, I bristle at the use of fear to prompt a vote.
Why do the politicians try to use fear as a motivator? It is because we all have fear. Fear is a consequence of being fallen and living in a fallen world.
For believers the solution is not to eliminate fear, but focus it correctly. Isaiah was told by God
Do not call conspiracy
everything that these people call conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,
and do not dread it.
13 The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one you are to fear,
he is the one you are to dread,
14 and he will be a sanctuary (Isaiah 8:12-14a).
The best way for the Church to impact culture is to be the Church and not part of any political party or movement. I am reminded that every time the church has gotten political power, it has gone badly for the church and for the world in which she functions.
To be the Church is to be focused on Jesus Christ and take Jesus at his word that our mission is to make disciples. The best hope for our country lies in the true Church rising up from within the organized church to live out the calling found in Scripture.
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