Dear Christian who spent time politicking on your Facebook, Twitter and blog,

It’s Wednesday, November 5th. The election is over. But the world still needs changing.

  • You’ve been writing notes and blogs talking about your candidate and his issues for months. I fully expect you to continue your writing at an even greater pace to talk about your Jesus, his kingdom, and the ways you’re working to bring it here “on earth as it is in heaven,” not pointing to someone else to do it.
  • You’ve been changing your profile pictures for months to include campaign stickers and slogans. I fully expect you to be changing them to your church, your community service organization or your God.
  • You’ve hosted parties to watch election results. I fully expect you to not only open your homes to your Christian brethren for small groups and fellowship, but also to your neighbors and coworkers like Matthew did after he first encountered Jesus.
  • You’ve campaigned, made calls, waved signs and spent time doing whatever to get your candidate elected. I fully expect you to be working just hard at serving at your church, helping to set up and clean, working children’s church, serving the community, feeding the homeless, working the parking lot…doing whatever it takes to love and serve your neighbors as yourself and proclaim Jesus as the son of God.
  • You’ve spent hours upon hours reading and responding to blog and news articles. I fully expect you to spend hours reading your Bible, reading biographies, histories and theological works. I fully expect you to own your faith, pursue justice and to be continually transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you will know what God’s good, pleasing, and perfect will is.

To sum it all up, I fully expect you to exert the exact same, if not more energy for the kingdom of God as you’ve spent on a political campaign.

If not, I wonder if you are not an idolater.

In Christ,

Clayton