Posted by
Ron on Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:19:41 PM
My answer is yes and no. Yes, if we equate conservative politics with
christianity. No, if we believe our christianity can have no bearing on
our politics. Being a christian should impact every aspect of who we
are, including who we vote for.
...The
Church must become very wary of power plays because power, as Lord
Acton has reminded, has a corrupting influence. But, in truth, so does
powerlessness insomuch that it can make us complacent. And that
complacency, on all issues of import, is dangerous to the Church as
well. The
"emerging church" movement promotes a term we could learn from --
sacralization. It is, in the words of authors Eddie Gibbs and Ryan
Bolger (Emerging Churches), "the process of making all of life sacred"
and "represents the interaction of kingdom and culture." Christians
should indeed have the goal of making all of life His, and that would
include the issues facing contemporary culture and political solutions.
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