A few weeks ago, I attended a pro-life breakfast with around 600 fellow Northwest Ohio pro-life advocates.
While there, I ran into a local pastor who introduced me to someone else as the “pastor of the most political church in town.” He went on to say, “I hear things are going well for you. You know, when you pick a lane like that, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.” It was hard to take what he meant as anything other than that our seven-fold growth in the last five years is simply a result of appealing to a political allegiance, as though we used being “political” as a growth strategy.
This is a sad but common misunderstanding.
The need for ‘political’ pastors
Faithful pastors in our day must be political. However, they must not be political simply to appease the masses — they must be “political” because it’s absolutely necessary in order to faithfully and biblically shepherd the Church in our age. There is no way around it. Preaching the Bible in a way that applies to the issues our congregants face means you will be political. And for some, if you are at all political, that means you are “too political.”
In the state of Colorado, right now, dozens of pastors are being given this label because ...
