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Can a Christian be a Democrat? How about a Republican?

We as Christians are known for “going to the wall” on a lot of issues. There’s right and wrong, and we’ll let you know it. Sometimes I think we feel we are the only purveyors of the truth and God needs US to make sure it all gets out there straight. But what about when we disagree?

Can a Christian be a Democrat? How about a Republican?

We as Christians are known for “going to the wall” on a lot of issues. There’s right and wrong, and we’ll let you know it. Sometimes I think we feel we are the only purveyors of the truth and God needs US to make sure it all gets out there straight. But what about when we disagree?

While I do believe there is right and wrong, I think we need to take that all with a grain of humility. No one wants to be shot at with the arrows of right and wrong. No one wants to be blasted with the TRUTH. Besides, show me the person that hasn’t been sure she was right, just to find in later years perhaps she was wrong.

When dealing with people, all the touting out of the morals needs to be softened just a bit. I’m not saying soften the truth, but soften the delivery. And, perhaps add a smidge of humility that says, “I’m not God so this interpretation may be changed.”

We’re definitely too busy telling people to do this (but don’t do this) and make sure you avoid this (but not that). Sometimes we act like the world is made up of a few simple rules to follow. Ask a question, and we can give you the answer.

Maybe instead of answering all the questions people are asking (and some they aren’t asking), we should be asking questions ourselves. Look at Jesus, He barely ever told anyone anything straight. He was always asking questions, creating confusion, and leading people to seek out the truth themselves.

There are so many brilliant and wonderful Christian brothers and sisters on all sides of many issues out there. Are we to say that we can tear them to pieces just because we come out on one side and they on the other? We may not agree, but we can still be together. We're going to have to be together for eternity anyway.

We must go to the wall for Jesus being the Son of God, the one true way for forgiveness of our sins, no other things involved. Most of the rest we can let be a little more fuzzy on in my opinion. We build our lives around the sharp edges of the truth, but we also must wield the truth in love.

So, let’s soften the edges and stop cutting each other to pieces. They’ll know we are Christians by our love, not our by our being right (John 13:34-35).