Mercer Professor Calls for Church to Engage World

In Care About Politics? Begin With the Church, Mercer University Professor of Christian Ethics, David Gushee, calls for the Church to engage the world, not withdraw from it.  Though arguing that “declining confidence in the church as the center of God’s redemptive activity correlates directly with an exaggerated emphasis on worldly politics,” Professor Gushee maintains that it would be erroneous to conclude that secular politics is unimportant or that the Church should withdraw from the world altogether.  Rather, the professor states,

A healthy church characterized by resurrection power will engage the world. It will do so through the moral witness of its own community life above all. And sometimes, yes, it will use words. It will speak to Obama and Hillary, to CNN and Fox. But it will do so with great care to protect the identity of the church, integrity of its mission, and independence of its message—and its messengers.

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