You want to make a difference for Christ politically. Maybe your social media account is your avenue. Or maybe you even wonder about moving to Washington to work for a congressman or senator. I understand and sympathize. “Been there, done that,” as they say. Only I got my start in politics in the 1960s and 70s and became involved in the work of the Moral Majority.
These days folks don’t talk about the Moral Majority but about “Christian nationalism.” And people running under this banner are doing good political work, even as they did under the Moral Majority banner in the 1980s and 90s.
Yet just as the temptation of political idolatry loomed in my day, so it does today. How do we as Christians know when we’re putting too much hope in politics? Even an idolatrous hope?
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things. In this reordering, we find functional saviors other than God. So it is with political idolatry. Before becoming a Christian, my own heart was an incessant idol factory, producing idols faster than I could keep up with. My experience would go on to teach me just how powerful and dangerous
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