“Choose ye: argue or intercede”

Jan at the view from her questions the contentious debate she has observed among Christians of late:

“How will all men ‘come to a knowledge of the truth’ when we’re occupied arguing ‘truth’ as our personal position on the Iraq war or abortion or gay marriage - amongst ourselves?”

On a related note, John MacArthur has posted this article at Pulpit Magazine on the dangers of political distraction:

“God is not calling us to wage a culture war that would seek to transform our countries into “Christian nations.” To devote all, or even most, of our time, energy, money, and strategy to putting a façade of morality on the world or over our governmental and political institutions is to badly misunderstand our roles as Christians in a spiritually lost world.”