Separating the gold and the dross

From Joel Belz:

Many conservatives are distressed at such fractures in their ranks. They worry that the coalition loosely joined under the "conservative" banner will fall apart if we work too hard at sorting out differences between being "conservative" and being "biblical."

Not to worry. For Christians, the goal should never be to prop up some dying movement—and that includes every worldly ideology. Conservative humanism is ultimately just as poisonous and deadly as liberal humanism; the fuse just takes a little longer to burn.

It's taken over 20 years, but we may be reaching the point where Evangelical Christians realize there is life (and Life) outside the Republican party. After two decades of abandoning small government ideology in a vain attempt to reshape society from the top down, maybe folks will learn that the Kingdom advances one heart at a time...and that the Spirit is more effective at changing the lives of men than any political platform could ever hope to be. Once the church refocuses on the Kingdom, the rest will follow. It always has.

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
C. S. Lewis