By John Sykes
Begging the question of whether Christians should be involved in politics at all, to which I shout The Word emphatically says yes, The Word gives some very specific guidance as to how. Here’s one specific example:
I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Mat 10:16
Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard:
“C. S. Lewis, in one of his writings, is specific about how: Christians in politics should be like serpents and doves. The reference is to Matthew 10:16, where Christ is sending his disciples out into Israel, telling them to be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.
Don Bonker, former US Congressman, offers:
Does this mean that Christians should form their own party? No. Should they then work within existing parties? Yes. Let diversity be felt and let your example lead the way. I think that is how we can have both politics and religion and through both make a better society.
Dale Foreman, former Majority Leader,Washington State House of Representatives:
Here lies the power of truth. The unstudied, unconscious influence of a holy life is the most convincing sermon that can be given in favor of Christianity. Argument, even when unanswerable, may provoke only opposition, but a godly example has a power that is impossible wholly to ignore.
In summary, it would seem that we should be involved in politics :
- astutely and with humility ,
- without our own political party,
- radiating His salt and light.
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