Flags in sanctuaries. Voter guides in church lobbies. Sermons that sound like campaign speeches. The American church has spent decades fusing its identity with partisan politics, and the Christ it shows the world bears little resemblance to the one in the Gospels.
Live Quietly argues that the New Testament envisions something radically different.
Drawing on a close reading of 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ("Aspire to live quietly, mind your own affairs, work with your hands"), Michael Whitworth traces the Bible's consistent teaching on the church's relationship to political power. Jesus refused it. The apostles warned against it. The early church thrived for three centuries without it. And every time the church has accepted the bargain, from Constantine to the Moral Majority, it has paid with its integrity.
Live Quietly covers the full scope of the question:
This is a book for Christians who are tired of the culture war and hungry for a better way. It's for the minister who feels pressured to preach politics. It's for the parent who doesn't want to hand their children a faith wrapped in a party platform. It's for the church member who wants to follow Jesus without being conscripted into someone else's political army.
The church has survived every empire it has ever encountered. It will survive this one too. The only question is whether it will look like Jesus when it does.
Live Quietly includes a discussion guide for small groups and Bible classes.
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