The biggest turnoff to people about the Christian church is the politics that take place when it becomes institutionalized.
My generation is especially exhausted by inauthenticity in spiritual leaders and those who are too spineless to stand for what’s right when doing so means losing constituents. But religious politics isn’t played only at the leadership level. In fact, it begins as young people in the youth group. It deepens through cliques at Bible school and culminates in the jealous battle for favor and attention over “ordinations weekend.”
In today’s post we look at twelve symptoms of religious politics and how you and I can rise above such cowardly games.
