The trial of Jesus was nothing less than a political confrontation between this world’s ideals and those of the kingdom of God (John 18:1-19:42). The politics of this world is dirty with secret deals done under the cover of night. Christianity ought to be practiced in public as a light to the whole world. This world’s politics bows to public opinion. Christians ought to stand up for eternal, unchanging values, not bow to public pressure to let a Bar-Abbas go free or worse, to deny Christ. When we pray the Lord’s prayer we pray a politically subversive prayer, Thy kingdom come. We do not pray for the political right or left, or any other worldly politics, but for God’s kingdom to come. Christianity is banned in many countries because it confronts this world and shows a better way.
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