I am a ‘legal alien’, I carry a Green Card and all our children have been born here, but I cannot vote in America.
With that in mind and also being a pastor, it is inimical, unwise, and probably unedifying for me to talk about party politics.
Political affiliation?
I have never told anyone who I voted for – when I could vote – and I vouchsafe the old Martin Lloyd-Jones principle that a Christian should advocate for their viewpoints in democracy, but not align the Christian faith solely with a particular party political machine. I also think that the ‘spirituality of the church’ (to use a phrase that a Presbyterian pastor reliably informed me is one that is employed within those circles to indicate the particular mission and focus of the gathered church) means that the local church should focus on what it is called to do: preach the gospel, disciple, evangelise.
