{"id":32803,"date":"2022-09-10T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/politics-in-the-church\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:23:50","slug":"politics-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/politics-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<p><em>By Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Political polarization is as prevalent in United States as it has been in decades. How is this polarization affecting how people affiliate with churches?<\/p>\n<p>Lifeway Research asked 1,010 Protestant churchgoers about how politics affect their church affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>They were given the following statement: \u201cI prefer to attend a church where people share my political views.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size:21px\">\n<li>Overall, 46 percent agree, 42 percent disagree, 12 percent are not sure.<\/li>\n<li>57 percent of those under age 50 agree<\/li>\n<li>39 percent of those ages 50 to 64 agree<\/li>\n<li>33 percent of those ages 65 and older agree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifty-seven percent of those with evangelical beliefs say their political beliefs match most people in their church. This compares to just 44 percent of those without evangelical beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Only 1 in 10 churchgoers say they would consider leaving their church over political views.<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0;clear: both'> <\/div>\n<p>Pastors: Be aware that about half of your congregation may not agree with your politics.<\/p>\n<p>Church members: Be aware that the people sitting next to you at church may disagree with you politically.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that the gospel is what brings the people of God together \u2026 not politics.<\/p>\n<p>Download the research<\/p>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  What Do Churchgoers Want to Change About Their Churches?  Who Are \u2018Evangelicals\u2019 and Why Knowing That Matters for Your Church  Churchgoers Proud of Church\u2019s COVID-19 Response  U.S. Churchgoers Say They\u2019ll Return Post-COVID <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Political polarization is as prevalent in United States as it has been in decades. How is this polarization affecting how people affiliate with churches? Lifeway Research asked 1,010 Protestant churchgoers about how politics affect their church affiliations. They were given the following statement: \u201cI prefer to attend a church where people share my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/politics-in-the-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics in the Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}