Are you willing to follow Jesus regardless of where he leads you politically? To tease that out a bit, are you willing to embrace the others-first kingdom ethic of Jesus when it requires you to keep your mouth shut and your opinions to yourself so as not to lose influence with outsiders? Are you willing to serve rather than cancel? Love rather than demonize? Pray for rather than publicly criticize? If not . . . if that’s too passive . . . or too progressive . . . then maybe your politics have become your lord. Maybe, like Judas, you are attempting to co-opt Jesus.
