God's Foreigners

American citizens are polarized politically. Many young voters flirt with dreamy socialist promises to provide everything. Others feel angry and disenfranchised and listen to flamboyant fascist rhetoric that promises to “make Christianity powerful again.” Christianity is never powerful by society’s standards. God’s power is made perfect in human weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

Instead of being drawn into bi-polar political disfunction, God’s people are called to be foreigners in this world. Only people who live spiritually distinct but not socially segregated can bless the world. Here we have no lasting city (Hebrews 13:14) because our citizenship is in heaven. (Philippians 3:20)

In the early Christian movement, pagan onlookers observed Christ’s followers as a “third race.” Christians were not predictably partisan on the Right or the Left. But don't take it from a donkey's mouth! Read this description of Christians:





Excerpted from a letter to Diognetus, probably late 2nd century