Now that the election is over, the church needs to repent (change our minds) and unite in the knowledge of the son of God unto maturity. The only strategy we have to effectively reach the world with the Gospel is our love for one another and our unity in love toward the unbelieving.
God’s strategy is unity in his body.
The enemy’s strategy is division in the body.
Which one “won” during the recent US Presidential election cycle?
The main tactic of the enemy against the church is division. The division we see on the church is by design, the design of the enemy. We must recognize that we’re splitting in the name of truth but we’re overlooking what unites us, we have the same Father, we have the same Jesus, we are brothers and sisters in a family that transcends doctrinal differences. All believers in Christ our Lord are united in one spirit. Naturally the devil wants to make us think we’re disconnected and get us separating in this world to sow dischord in God’s plan to reach the unbelieving world.
As an example, I want to expose how one man and his ideas can play into the strategy of the enemy and create dischord in the body of Christ. Saul Alinsky has had a major influence on modern politics. As we just saw, political views created much division in the body of Christ. Alinsky wrote “Rules for Radicals” which is a Marxist inspired mandate to break down a God centered society and make people dependent on the state. He uses divisive tactics like ridicule, race bating, cultural war bating around the illusion of fairness. Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer, describing him as “the very first radical who won his own kingdom. This confused man is cited by many modern liberal politicians as a great influence in their lives.
If we are engaging in divisive tactics we are falling for the plan of the “original radical.”
I’m not interested in rebuking the church, I want to pull us together so we can unite in the knowledge of the son of God rather than divide over theological differences, race, denominational differences and political agendas.
Even in differing opinions, we all bleed red and those who have said yes to Jesus are in the same family. Those who are not believers are still our brothers and sisters in the human race. My prayer is for respect, decency, maturity and love to filter our relationships and communication. We’re all in this together.
We all have influence over each other. Each and every one of us are highly suggestible. Let’s try an experiment and treat other people how we want to be treated and speak over them things we’d want in our own lives and see how it goes. We reap what we sow, even from each other.
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