This is an excellent article from the New City Church blog. While politics are one way to fulfill God's mandate to influence the culture, our mission is bigger than that. (Please see my recent post, An Unreliable Reliance.)
As the kids say, don't get it twisted. Politics is not the answer to everything.
An excerpt from Tullian Tchividjian's blog post:
When many Christians think about the need to engage our world in a transformative way, they immediately think exclusively of our need to be involved in politics. For these Christians, the cultural mandate is synonymous with political activism. The assumption is that a change in policies will lead to a change in culture.
Now, I fully agree with the need for Christians to be involved in the political process. As I have argued, Christians are to be bringing the standards of God’s Word to bear on every cultural sphere—politics being one of them. But, it is a mistake to conclude that political activism is what God had in mind when he issued the cultural mandate to mankind. Moreover, it is also a mistake to conclude that the arena of politics is the most strategic arena for cultural renewal.
Judy Howard Ellis
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