Pastors who publicly aligned themselves and their churches with a political party or candidate abandoned their calling, undermined their credibility, and exploited the body of Christ. For them, the end would justify the means. Winning would be worth it. The winner would have the opportunity to determine the direction of our nation for decades to come. So battle lines were drawn. Jesus’s name was invoked. And in the end, nobody really won. We still can’t agree on who won. The only clear outcome is that the church lost.
