{"id":431,"date":"2008-09-29T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=431"},"modified":"2008-09-29T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T15:28:46","slug":"worship-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2008\/09\/worship-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadscolorado.com\/\">Crossroads<\/a> (my home church), worship and politics just don&#8217;t mix, unless they are Kingdom politics. Period. Red and blue politics won&#8217;t find a place in worship. We don&#8217;t host voter registration, make announcements about voting issues, remind people to vote, print announcements, facilitate petitions, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every political season, someone is disappointed then they request one of the aforementioned things, and our pastors say, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering about other Covenant congregations? How do you handle politics in or around weekend worship?<\/p>\n<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/outofur\/archives\/2008\/09\/scot_mcknight_t.html\">excellent article by Scot McKnight<\/a> that just posted on Out of Ur. Naturally Scot reframes our political hopes in terms of Christian Hope. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where is our hope? To be sure, I hope our country solves its international conflicts and I hope we resolve poverty and dissolve our educational problems and racism. But where does my hope turn when I think of war or poverty or education or racism? Does it focus on November 4? Does it gain its energy from thinking that if we get the right candidate elected our problems will be dissolved? If so, I submit that our eschatology has become empire-shaped, Constantinian, and political. And it doesn\u2019t matter to me if it is a right-wing evangelical wringing her fingers in hope that a Republican wins, or a left-wing evangelical wringing her fingers in hope that a Democrat wins. Each has a misguided eschatology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How does your church handle election politics?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=431&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Crossroads (my home church), worship and politics just don&#8217;t mix, unless they are Kingdom politics. Period. 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