Message preached on Sunday, November 6, 2016 by Adam Davidson at Portage Free Methodist Church

In this series, we’re asking the BIG questions about God, faith, the church, and Christianity in general. For this Sunday, the questions we’re addressing are about politics and the Kingdom of God. We’ll get to the specific verbatim questions in a moment, but first we need to lay some groundwork. We’ll start in Romans chapter 13 as we seekto establish what is true, in light of the topic of politics and the Kingdom of God.

Does the church participate in politics? Do pastors participate in politics? The answer to both is yes. Next question: should the church and/or pastor take a political stance? That’s where wise caution must be generouslyused. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in the state of Michigan, and that standing has with it specific laws that need to be…