Your Hope Is Not In Politics (a warning for Christians) — rethink

Originally published at https://rethinknow.org on January 27, 2020.

Like it or not the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election is coming. Along with the smear campaigns, empty promises, and ugly fights will come increased division along party lines. With the election coming soon, I wanted to look at the relationship between Christianity and politics.

I see a growing fear as the uncertainty of our future draws near. We feel like we have to fight for our rights, expose the opposing side, and defend our candidate. Really we are just reacting out of fear of the opposing side/person gaining power and the damage they will do.

It concerns me how Christians engage in politics. But what concerns me, even more, is the hope many Christians have placed in their political party and leaders. We are way too invested in what happens in our country. Hear me on this. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be involved in politics. We should. The problem isn’t our involvement, the problem is that increasingly Christians are deriving their hope and identity from a political leader or ideology and not from God.

We need to take a step back and look at where our true allegiance lies. We need to think about how we should be responding to the election and how we should engage in politics.