What if???

what if...

the "christian right" had spent as much time praying for Bush as they did praying against Obama if George would have been less of an idiot.

all the evangelicals bottle up the anti Obama sentiments and put it toward talking about Jesus to folks?

being politically informed had nothing to do with claiming the other side was evil, the anti Christ, and actually believing that Jesus was the head of your party?

the money spent by evangelicals for the election went to their local churches as a tithe?

justice really was an issue we all would get behind?

the church treated those who were not ideologically the same, were treated with love and respect?

we stop using the pulpit to promote politics and start loving the nominal in our society?

we heard from evangelicals on love issues, rather than every 4 years about political issues?

we loved people away from abortion, rather than standing there with a sign of a dead baby?

the media would show an evangelical actually worshiping, and their face did not look like they were in pain from hemorrhoids?

we, as the body of Christ, actually get behind the agenda of Jesus and live outside our walls?

we stopped being the reason people are leaving the church?

the opportunity to be grace givers wins out over brow beaters?

we celebrate the fact that our country has just elected the first black man as president in history, and stop whining about what we really don't know or have control over?

we replace all the time we spent talking about, condemning, judging, being arrogant over the election and its candidates, in prayer and fasting over holiness and acceptance of people?

we really understand that the church as we know it has lost her voice in the public market place. and maybe we need to return to our roots as an underground movement full of life changed Jesus followers?

we act as how the rest of the country sees us. arrogant, judgemental, loveless, separatists,
argumentative, antagonists, hypocritical, the same, talking heads as we ever were?

we embraced the fact that there are more people, more money, more church buildings, more conferences, more self help books, more or everything EXCEPT new followers of Christ, as a challenge to invade our culture with an infusion of Jesus?

nothing changes...and we just sit by and complain. again.