21) On Church Involvement in Politics

Another source of disunity within the Church is found when Churches become worldly entities. One example of this was the Thomas Road Church in North Carolina. Its former pastor, Jerry Falwell, was well known for being a right wing mouthpiece. It is perfectly acceptable to be interested in politics, even as a Christian. It is our duty as citizens to care about our political system. However, it is not the job of Christianity to become the mouthpiece of any political ideal. When Christianity does become a religion that is concerned overly with this world, then it loses all value as a religion and the Church ought to be rejected. I feel a certain duty to mention that it is not simply the right wing that extolls its values through the Church. The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered)movement also has churches that support the LGBT cause. Likewise also the Black power movement with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The point is not what the church is supporting, but rather that it is supporting modern immorality and worrldly (rather than heavenly) ideas.