Should Christians become involved in politics?" The question should be not "whether" but "how."

By John Sykes

Begging the question of whether Christians should be involved in politics at all, to which I shout The Word emphatically says yes, The Word gives some very specific guidance as to how. Here’s one specific example:

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Mat 10:16

Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard:

“C. S. Lewis, in one of his writings, is specific about how: Christians in politics should be like serpents and doves. The reference is to Matthew 10:16, where Christ is sending his disciples out into Israel, telling them to be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

Don Bonker, former US Congressman, offers:

Does this mean that Christians should form their own party? No. Should they then work within existing parties? Yes. Let diversity be felt and let your example lead the way. I think that is how we can have both politics and religion and through both make a better society.

Dale Foreman, former Majority Leader,Washington State House of Representatives:

Here lies the power of truth. The unstudied, unconscious influence of a holy life is the most convincing sermon that can be given in favor of Christianity. Argument, even when unanswerable, may provoke only opposition, but a godly example has a power that is impossible wholly to ignore.

In summary, it would seem that we should be involved in politics :

1. astutely and with humility ,
2. without our own political party,
3. radiating His salt and light.