Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

by Andy Stanley

We’ve lost our voice and diminished our influence because for too many of us the opposite is true. I’m not suggesting that you love your country less. I’m suggesting that we love one another better. In doing so we demonstrate our allegiance to our Savior, who made it clear that our love for one another is the best evidence of our love for the Father. If we want to make America great, we should make more great citizens, citizens for whom the sum and substance of their fault or error is that they are accustomed to meet on a fixed day and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so.35