JD Greear Explains Why He Doesn't Warn His Congregation Against Voting for Democrats

J.D. Greear explains why he doesn’t warn his congregation against voting for Democrats, and it’s eerily similar to how he approaches all of his theological views—by sanding off every sharp corner until the whole thing collapses into mush.

Whenever the topic turns to Christians voting for Democrats, he doesn’t appeal to Scripture’s clarity. He appeals to “nuance,” “pastoral complexity,” and whatever other soft-focus lens lets him avoid calling anything what it actually is.

In Greear’s framework, the problem isn’t that the Democratic platform openly celebrates moral rebellion. The problem is that critics “oversimplify.” According to him, if a church member starts warming up to left-wing ideology, the last thing we should do is suggest spiritual drift. That, he insists, would be unfair and “unwise.”