November 1, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms
Principle: We cannot be spiritual minded and carnally focused... it’s impossible.
1) Politics recreates a community of contempt.
We dismiss whole groups of people on the illusion that we know them, when we do not know them...
How do people arrive that their current political beliefs?
Their experiences and history...
How do we judge their current political beliefs?
By where we think those beliefs are taking us...
Politics kills an environment of understanding and empathy and replaces it with an environment of fear and blame
2) Politics becomes an identity.
Genesis 1:26-28 (The Message)
Where has the creator God placed his divine image? On what has he put his sovereign inscription? On coins? On temples? On churches? No, on none of these things—on only one thing.
On you and on me, on each of us, and indeed, on every human being who's ever lived or shall live. The almighty God has created you in his own image, after his likeness, with his inscription. You bear the image of God—whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, agnostic, or an atheist.
The creator God placed his divine image on every human being...
We don't deify Uncle Sam the way the Romans deified Caesar Augustus. But that doesn't mean something like that isn't going on inside your head or your heart, so that you wind up rendering to Caesar—or to the state or the political system—that which is most precious to you, most fundamental about you: your expressions of your worship, your hope, your allegiance, your identity.
So what to do?
Vote your conscience, and then let it go...
