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Friday, November 09, 2012

Trevin Wax: 3 things the church can learn from election 2012


It's a tricky thing to engage in political analysis before the dust has fully settled on a recent election. No doubt pollsters, pundits and politicians from both sides of the aisle will be examining it in the coming weeks and months.

Republican strategists will perform a post-mortem on the Romney campaign and the Senate seats that slipped away. Most will wonder about the failure of Republicans to seize the advantage during a sluggish economy.

Despite the risks of weighing in too early, I thought it would be worth pointing out a few things the evangelical church could learn from the losses of the Republican Party this year. Let me be clear at the outset that I am not equating the two. A political party only has life as long as people find it valuable. The church is guaranteed a future because of Christ's promise as Master Builder.

Still, there are a number of lessons that evangelicals can learn from failed strategies in the political arena. Here are a few I jotted down while watching the election returns. Read more

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