Two Days Left

We have two days until the election. We will hear much about the "faith vote" or the religious right (sic) or whatever. We have already heard more than enough about the "Christian" (sic) way of voting. It is all an illusion. As citizens of the United States we have a deep and important responsibility to vote on Tuesday. This has been an exciting and potentially "game-changing" political cycle. But it is not about the Kingdom of God. It is about the kingdom of power. and that could be our shortcoming as Christians. Greg Boyd, an evangelical not known to stay within the previously set boundaries calls us to see with eyes of faith.

Instead of addressing our own massive shortcomings and sin, however, many [church] leaders are trying to get us to focus on fixing Caesar! We aren’t doing what we’re called to do, in part because we’re so busy trying to get Caesar to do it! We’re ignoring the log in our own eye while trying to find a speck in Caesar’s! We’re doing very little of what Jesus called us to do and spending a lot of time doing things Jesus never told us to do... Instead of feasting at the banquet of God’s humble, servant love, we’re joining in the world’s scramble to scarf up a morsel of power that falls from Caesar’s table.

Folks, for people who profess to follow Jesus, this is pure insanity! It’s just that this insanity has been going on for so long (basically since Constantine’s “conversion” in the fourth century) that many find it to be perfectly normally — indeed, for many, its the epitome of “taking a stand for viruth and righteousness.”

How we need to be freed from the illusion that we’re doing anything kingdom by voting a certain way every couple years!

How we need to wake up to the truth that we vote for or against the Kingdom every day of our life.

We vote by how we spend our money and time. We vote by where we live, who we hang out with, the kind of car we drive and the kind of clothes we wear.

In the Kingdom, we vote with our lives, not in a booth expressing our opinion about what Caesar should do.
--Greg Boyd

And a HT to Kingdom Grace