#3: Peace and Politics (A study based on Zechariah 1:7-2:12) We are called to be peace makers, not to be hate mongers. Because that’s true, we need to place politics into the right place in our hearts so that we can truly live in peace. In that effort, this study addresses politics directly. It looks at three aspects of politics: its power, the power that goes beyond it, and its point. Its goal is to bring Christ’s peace to politics in such a way that it enables us to be the peacemakers Christ has called us to be.
Today we are going to take politics head on. We’ll talk about the power of politics and the power beyond politics. We will do it by zeroing in on Zechariah 1:18-21. Then we will zoom out to see the entire forest and the entire section of Zechariah 1:7-2:12. We’ll do some discussing; then I’ll do some teaching/preaching. Then we’ll come back to that power of God’s rule over our daily lives and the boundaries it puts around us as his church in some closing discussion.
