Politics Free Church?
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Anonymous
| You're right, OP. It would be really awful to spend every Sunday in a space that overtly communicated that everyone should be able to live in peace and be treated with respect and was entitled to justice. How annoying! |
Anonymous
| National Presbyterian. Leans moderately liberal but I’ve been amazed in the adult Sunday schools classes how smart, well-informed and pragmatic the attendees are. It’s definitely a “thinking person’s” church without hysteria on either end. |
Anonymous
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Jesus Did Not Speak Out On Current Political Issues
There is nothing recorded in the New Testament about Jesus Christ speaking out against any of the political issues of His day. Nothing in His teachings gives even the slightest hint that He had any political involvement. He Refused To Be Made King In fact, Jesus refused to lead any political movement. He resisted when the people wanted to make Him king. Jesus Did Not Incite The People Against Rome Although Jesus did not incite the people against Rome, this was one of the charges brought before Pilate by the religious leaders. But they insisted, "He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here" (Luke 23:5). Jesus Refused To Get Entangled In A Political Debate, when He refused to get into a debate about paying taxes to Rome: Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away (Matthew 22:15-22). Jesus' Kingdom Is Not Of This World System Jesus kingdom was not of this world system. Jesus told Pontius Pilate: “Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, my kingdom is not of this realm." Therefore Pilate said to Him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice" (John 18:36,37).” No, Jesus wasn’t political and He was concerned with one Kingdom: that of His Father. Anyone that tells you Jesus made political statements, would support either political party, support any government legislation, etc, is not very bright, hasn’t actually studied the life and words of Jesus, and/or is trying to use Jesus as a prop. Hard pass. |
Anonymous
That’s false, and you should not tell people that. |
Anonymous
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New poster here.
As someone who voted twice for Obama and twice for Trump I have had a very difficult time finding a church. I am reading this thread closely. No politics in my Sunday sermon, please. |
Anonymous
| St. John’s, Lafayette square, downtown. Episcopal. Leans left like most of DC but very much strives not to be overtly political in sermons or liturgy. |
Anonymous
You might like McLean Bible which is working on racial reconciliation and other issues of the day yet from a scriptural perspective as best they can and not a political one. I can tell there is now leadership at the top who are all over the map politically. The old guard sees the younger set as 'woke' and are leaving for Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg. |
Anonymous
With a voting record like that you may be having difficulty finding a lot of things. |
Anonymous
Maybe pp could look online for people with similar voting records to form a new religion. |
Anonymous
I second McLean Bible, especially MoCo (diversity reflects MoCo diversity). |
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Jesus said to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger and foreigner, and give all your money to the poor. He said the wealthy could not enter Heaven.
It's inescapably political. |
Anonymous
| Give the Methodists a try. |
Anonymous
| Possibly Grace Episcopal in Alexandria. We attended for a while before settling on a different denomination and I didn't notice any politics in the sermons. |
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PP here. I feel like perhaps I should not have voted for Obama (at least not twice), but I liked him personally so much.
Still searching for a church that does not rely on the journalism-light Washington Post or the NYTimes for sermons. |
Anonymous
| St Davids Episcopal in NW DC |