A beautiful wind is blowing through the body of Christ in our country right now even as American Christianity seems to be split between a side that’s in decline and a side that is intoxicated with its surging political power. Many Christians have grown disgusted with the partisanship and the culture wars that have intensified over the past several decades. And we decided to do something about it. I wanted to share with you a vision that developed at our church for a campaign called “Jesus Is My Candidate” and an even cooler idea that I just discovered called “Election Day Communion.”
We were going to steer clear of politics this fall at Burke United Methodist Church in the suburbs of D.C., since we have a beautifully “purple” church where progressive liberals and Tea Party activists worship and serve together. It’s an oasis away from the outside world where each of us has had to de-friend facebook friends we have loved for years because they’ve been infected by the poison of dehumanizing partisanship. But we decided that instead of backing away from the ugliness in our culture, we would face it head on.
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