What can we do around avoiding entryism? How do we remain focused on what is prime? Is there such a thing as a mission for the church?
Are we not merely the progressive project, or the counter reaction, on its knees?
No. This is more than that. We preach Christ not merely crucified, but risen.
Instead it is reversed. The more our politics and rhetoric reflects truth, the more we are aligned with the will of God. For God is truth, and this we know: Christ Rose.
1Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you — unless you have come to believe in vain.
3For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, 4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them — though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.
The resurrection is a fact. It was documented: too many people witnessed it The mission of the church is this: to proclaim Christ risen, and do his work.
Not to reject so we can score virtue points. Not to converge, but to be as Christ is.
This is the house of God.
This is our mission. Regardless of the economic and political conditions.
Politics is emphemeral. Power fades. The pendulum swings. Riches are gained or lost.
Only people will be eternal, for they will be as Christ, or facing an convergence that is eternal.
Choose well.