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One of the most contentious topics within American Christianity is the role followers of Jesus should or should not play within politics and government.
Today, we do not need more right people in our country. We need people who are willing to be kind despite the opposition we may face.
It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
Should we pray for the president?
These small moments are gifts, if we will receive them and let them teach us.
There is a crushing agony to experiencing so much stillness and peace and serenity, but then walking back into so much antipathy, hatred, and division. 
It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on- This country is not your hope. This political system is not your hope. This government is not your hope.
An absolutely essential parable to the Church for this political season...
There has been increasing and bewildering confusion amongst Christians as to how we ought to engage with the political system, generally, and for whom we ought to vote, specifically.
We are the hands and feet of Christ. The government is not. The Republicans are not. The Democrats are not. And whether they say they are "Christians" or not is utterly and spectacularly inconsequential. As we have outsourced our purpose as the Church to the government and politicians, we have failed our country and our communities.
Right now our conversations are not conversations.
For even in the face of death, our own blood will cry out and give testimony.
I do not need any legislation to pronounce the freedom I already have, and will continue to have, despite my changing circumstance or situation.
There is no question that we live in an incredibly unique time in history in which there is a strange mass collision of shallowness, superficiality, competing narratives that try to explain our existence, and depersonalization wrought by technology, all accompanied by a growing disdain for spirituality, in general, and religion, in specific, from a hyper-rationalistic culture.
If we aren’t living like Christ in the present, when times are relatively good, then we will never live like Christ when things get difficult.
If we are God's ambassadors then we can't give up on even the most hard headed, hard hearted, stubborn mule of a person.
The truth of God that cuts through every liberal and conservative position is God's profound love of all life.
Can you imagine America loving our enemies rather than engaging in conflict with them? Me either.
The sacrificial way of Jesus has been co-opted by the self-serving, consumer driven interests of cultural America.
In our global neighborhood and in the middle of the street in which we live lies a poor brother who has been in need of help for quite sometime. And now needs our help more than ever.
the really tough thing is that most of us really do not like to change our view or perspective.