“I would never presume to tell you what you should preach. You have been called and anointed into leadership. How you choose to fulfill that anointing is entirely between you and God. But you are not called to silence. About anything.”
(Jason Anderson – Clear Truth Media)
Dear Faithful Shepherds,
Goodness knows, it’s hard out there nowadays for church leadership in America. Tensions are high, and the air is thick with opinions. Nobody has a polite disagreement anymore; every conversation about current events has the potential to devolve into a 3 AM Waffle House fight.
So, I completely understand your desire to avoid politics. Any pastor who has his priorities straight is going to want to keep the gospel as the Main Thing, and when that’s your perspective, it’s easy to see politics as an inflammatory, unnecessary distraction. You wouldn’t bring it up any more than you would preach a sermon series on who has the best bar-b-q or why Android is really better than the iPhone.
But while your motives for staying out of the cage fight of American politics may have been perfectly reasonable in the past, I urge you to take another look at that fight, how it affects the lives of your congregation, and the proper role of the church in it.