If you’re a pastor, what are you going to say on November 10, 2024?
That date is the first Sunday after the presidential election. We might know who won the race for the presidency, or we might not. There might be preparations for an upcoming second Biden term or people getting ready for a second Trump term. There might be political violence or not. Whatever happens, what are you going to do on that Sunday six months from now?
A few weeks ago, I asked that question to Joshua Gritter, a Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina for my podcast. He talked about how he and his wife wondered how their pastor would speak after the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and then said what he and his wife (they are co-pastors at a church) this year. He will not be talking about the election. Instead along with his wife, he will start a series on the Lord’s prayer. “What we’re going to preach on that Sunday is Jesus told us how to pray this way, and God is the one to whom the power and the glory belong,” he said in the podcast. “God is sovereign. Jesus is Lord. And no matter who sits in that office, the church has a job to do, and that is participating in the life of this, of this God, this good God.”
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