So, what part of “my kingdom is not of this world” don’t you get?

“They’re spiritual misfits. Rabble-rousers. They packed the shell of the old Baptist church on Negley Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to hear author, Christian activist and fellow misfit Shane Claiborne stump on the campaign for a third party candidate, Jesus.
The dreadlocked Christian activist from Philadelphia and his team parked a black school bus around the back. The hand-painted gold letters on the side read “Jesus for President.”
The bus runs on vegetable oil and, yes, it’s a political statement.
“It’ll be a long time before we fight a war over used veggie oil,” says Claiborne with a sly smile.”

Why would he want a demotion?
The Christian left is making the exact same mistake that the right did: looking to the government to usher in the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is not of this world but we continually look to government to institute a political version of it. We want America to look like what we think the kingdom should look like.
Look, it’s well within reason that Christians would want to live in a society that reflects Christian values of morality and love for our fellow man but the government can’t make that happen. The government can feed the poor, give shelter to the homeless, aid the sick and infirm but having done so they don’t fulfill the biblical mandate to do so. Sorry but the state is not the church. Wanting our nation to fulfill it’s obligation to its citizens is one thing, thinking it has anything to do with the church’s duty to the poor is another.
The only way the kingdom is realized here on earth is through sharing the gospel and transformed lives and that’s the role of the church. If we really want to see a transformed America, the only way it will happen is though the gospel. The right hasn’t learned that lesson yet and the left appears to be following their lead which is really ironic given the fact that they are so vehemently opposed to how closely the right has associated themselves with Republicans.
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