I started Body Broken yesterday and finished it this morning. I ordered a used physical copy because there are too many good passages that need to be underlined, passages like this one:
"If the crucified and risen Messiah cannot hold Democrats and Republicans together under the same roof, if he cannot enable them to work through their differences, then he is not much of a Savior - he certainly is not the Messiah of the world. Stories like Woodland Hills1 "prove" that in the final analysis, we are a social organization just like any other social organization - united by the same sort of bonds that unite other human groups, and apt to dissolve for the same reasons that other human groups dissolve. This is more than unfortunate. It is disobedient, a betrayal of our Saviour, the cause of which he has called us, and the purpose for which he died. It proves that we have allowed our vision of America to capture our hearts more deeply than God's vision for us as his ambassadors. And the effect is to compromise the power of our testimony with the world."
Body Broken: Can Republicans and Democrats Sit in the Same Pew? - Charles Drew, pg. 50, Kindle location 855. (my italics)
1. Twenty percent of the congregation (1000 people) left this church because the pastor would not endorse a Republican agenda. He was not pro-choice nor a defender of gay marriage.
"If the crucified and risen Messiah cannot hold Democrats and Republicans together under the same roof, if he cannot enable them to work through their differences, then he is not much of a Savior - he certainly is not the Messiah of the world. Stories like Woodland Hills1 "prove" that in the final analysis, we are a social organization just like any other social organization - united by the same sort of bonds that unite other human groups, and apt to dissolve for the same reasons that other human groups dissolve. This is more than unfortunate. It is disobedient, a betrayal of our Saviour, the cause of which he has called us, and the purpose for which he died. It proves that we have allowed our vision of America to capture our hearts more deeply than God's vision for us as his ambassadors. And the effect is to compromise the power of our testimony with the world."
Body Broken: Can Republicans and Democrats Sit in the Same Pew? - Charles Drew, pg. 50, Kindle location 855. (my italics)
1. Twenty percent of the congregation (1000 people) left this church because the pastor would not endorse a Republican agenda. He was not pro-choice nor a defender of gay marriage.
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