POLITICS IN CHURCH Part 1: How To Love In Disagreement

What exactly do we fear?

What exactly do we fear?

Loss

Disagree Politically

Love Unconditionally

Are you willing to evaluate your politics through the filter of our faith rather than create a version of faith that supports your politics?

John 17:1

“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.”

John 17:11 “I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you.  Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that…

they may be one as we are one.”

John 17:20

“My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message.

John 17:21

Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:22–23

I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. 23 Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 

We must not let anything divide us. 

We must not let anyone divide us.

1. Pray for oneness.

Heavenly Father, make us one so we can influence many.

2. Look for an opportunity to love unconditionally someone with whom you disagree politically. 

Matthew 16:18

“I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”

Disagree politically. 

Love unconditionally. 

Pray for unity.