By Michael Wear | YouTube | 10m
Published in October of 2018
SUMMARY: Center for Christianity and Public Life founder Michael Wear makes a powerful, impassioned plea built on Jeremiah 29 for Christians to be involved in politics by advocating for human flourishing not to fulfill an emotional or spiritual need.
KEY QUOTE: “The crisis for Christians is not that we are politically homeless. The crisis is that we ever thought we could make our home in politics at all. Our home is within Him who has made his home in us. Our hope is in the kingdom right at hand. If we find ourselves in Babylon let’s make sure we don’t become Babylonians. The time for self-serving parochialism is over. The time for going to politics for self-affirmation and cultural expression has long passed. Christians go to politics to advance justice and affirm dignity. We get our emotional and spiritual needs elsewhere. It is time for Christians to stop looking to politics for hope and to start carrying kingdom hope into politics for the love of God and the good of their neighbors.”
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