As Election Cycle Nears, The Gospel Coalition Runs Cover For Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBTQ Democrats

The Gospel Coalition continues to set itself up as the authority on civil political engagement within the Church. Every election cycle as we approach election day, The Gospel Coalition begins its "nuanced" approach to politics and tries to make the case that Christians are "free" to "vote their conscience" and that churches shouldn't interfere with how Christians think about politics. Of course, since the Evangelical Church is historically conservative, this opens the door to allowing leftist politics—which are incompatible with biblical thinking—to run rampant in Evangelical churches.

Arguing that preaching against political positions is a type of "seeker sensitivity" that churches should avoid, Trevin Wax writes in his latest article, Beware the New Seeker Sensitivity, "Moral issues have, of course, always been the purview of the church. Wherever the Bible speaks to an issue of righteous living—whether murder, adultery, theft, or love for neighbor—the preacher ought to speak too."

But then he argues that "We cannot (and shouldn’t try to) establish a clear divide between morality and politics because public policy is always based on a moral vision. And that’s where it gets tricky."

The reason he argues this way is that he, like so many Evangelical talking heads, has bought into the notion that politics is merely different ways to reach the same moral goals. For example, Pro-abortion Evangelicals like Dwight McKissic and Veggie Tales creator, Phil Vischer would say that abortion is evil, but that instead of making it illegal and punishing those who have one with the justice system, we should instead "make abortion unnecessary" by giving handouts to unwed mothers. They believe that this would drive down abortions. Therefore, in their minds, Christians can disagree about the political approach so long as they have the same ultimate goal.

But, of course, that isn't biblical and it's this mindset that corrupts the Church. No Christian in their right mind would make the same arguments about murdering innocent toddlers or elementary school kids. But this demonstrates that these people who hold to such unbiblical thinking on the issue of abortion and come to the conclusion that keeping abortion legal and replacing punishment with bribes for mothers to keep their unborn children hold to an un-Christian worldview. Their thinking is flawed and incompatible with God's commandments to protect the innocent.