Christians who agree that Christ comes before party still have to decide what to do. One believer organizes a march. Another runs for the statehouse. A third tutors a child on Saturdays and rarely posts about politics. A fourth posts every day. All four can claim the same allegiance, and Jude 3 Project teaches that our ultimate allegiance belongs to Christ and his kingdom, not to any party or politician. That conviction tells you who you belong to. It does not tell you which method of public witness is faithful, effective or wise.
The leaders brought together here answer that practical question in different ways. Justin Giboney, an attorney and political strategist who co-founded the AND Campaign, takes his lessons from how the civil rights generation planned its protests. Bishop Leah Daughtry, a pastor and strategist, worked inside a national party and treats voting as a way of life. Treneé McGee, a Connecticut state representative, mostly votes with her party and breaks with it in public when conscience requires. Pastor Michael McBride organizes against gun violence and mass incarceration and keeps the people most affected at the center. Michael Wear, founder of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, starts with the spiritual formation of the person doing politics. Pastors Mike Kelsey and Bishop Charlie Haynes Jr. ask what power does to the person who holds it.
Their positions are set side by side below so each can answer the others. The study moves through four stages, and each stage trains a different skill: reading Scripture on what public witness is for, testing methods against what they actually accomplish, restating a real disagreement fairly, and examining the person behind the method. The goal is not to crown a winner. It is to help you choose your own way of engaging and give reasons for it to someone who chose differently.