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The church was founded to serve the entire world with Christ-like love, never to rule the entire world. It is called to appear to be a commercial Jesus, dying on the combination for individuals who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to express the kingdom of the combination in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in getting what most American evangelicals are now trying to get -- political vitality -- it has been devastating both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church accumulates the sword, it lays down the combination. Today's activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique see to the entire world. The church is to have a political tone of voice, but we could to own it just how Jesus possessed it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, 'vitality over,' way to do life. We live to transform the entire world by being ready to go through for others -- working out 'vitality under,' not by getting our way in contemporary society -- working out 'vitality over.'
