Stay Salty | Healing Our Political Sickness

Jesus wants us to be salty—weird, unique, different in a good way for the good of our world, by offering it the special blessings of Jesus and the gospel. But there’s a lot of reasons we could say that Christians aren’t that weird, and one of the main ways has to do with politics. Many people have walked away from faith in Jesus at least in part because they hoped Christians would be different—and they weren’t! How might we begin to look different? In this message, Pastor Joel explains how it all starts with whether or not we see Jesus and his teaching as actually having something to offer not just out political beliefs, but equally as importantly, the kinds of people we are in our politics. Specifically, Jesus talks about how we are not to be controlled by fear or give into anger, which breeds contempt. Fear and anger are both incredibly important compinents of American politics, and Pastor Joel offers some suggestions for weeding them out of how we participate in the politics of our time.