Michael Wear is the founder, president and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonprofit that helps Christians think about public life without being swallowed by it. On Is Political Hypocrisy Driving People Away From the Church (2024), Wear put the problem in one sentence: “I actually think if we start with politics, we’re starting in the wrong place.”
That sentence is the doorway into this whole guide. When a young person tells you the church is just another political team, they are usually describing Christians who started with politics and worked backward to Jesus. They watched an adult choose a side first and then find verses to defend it. They are not wrong to be suspicious of that.
Wear went further. He argued that Christianity’s gift to politics right now may be humility about what politics can do:
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