“Politicked"

Most of my friends and family are conservative Christians, and most of them did not vote for Obama. Some of the fundamentalists at the family fringes are pretty despondent about the election results. You know, I’m actually really excited to see what the democrats do … here’s their chance. They’ve got the Senate, the House and the President. And since my hope’s not in politics, I’m not worried about liberal government at all, I’m just curious to see what they do with this chance.

I think it’s very sad that peeps have put their hope in the US being a “Christian” nation. I get it, since I used to be the same, but then when I understood about Jesus and started to care about people’s hearts, all that political concern just fell away from me. Laws don’t change people’s hearts. They don’t save their marriages, they don’t rescue their children. They don’t heal their hearts.

Just like the Old Testament law. It protected the people and pointed them to God, true. But it didn’t save them. Morality didn’t save them, their relationship with God saved them.
The truth is, eliminating abortion in the US would not save the world. Even ending poverty wouldn’t save the world. Because morality isn’t the hope of the world. Only Jesus is the hope of the world. I want to be known for what I’m for – Jesus – not known for what I’m against.
After all, politics is culture, and culture never saved anyone.