did jesus tell us to get politically involved?

Question

I want prove...book chapter and verse and not just one verse that's been taken out of contex.

producer_vortex the reason i asked for book chapter and verse is I hate when people just spout stuff off without anything to back it up....

Kevin....I'm not sure what point you where trying to make.....Of course I Pray....'talking' to Jesus can mean many things...try explainging what you mean by that next time.

Answer 1

Nope. I've been trying to make this point myself. The Roman government's idea of human rights was enough to make any liberal these days go screaming through the streets. Likewise, the rampant immorality would have been enough to make any conservative cringe in disgust. The fact is that Jesus taught people to help the poor themselves, and never advocated forcing the Roman government to help the poor. Also, he taught his followers to live pure lifestyles themselves, not try to force the govt. to make other people do it.

Answer 2

Jesus told Pilate: "My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews. But my reign is not here" (John 18:36). Jesus brought no political message or program.

He paid his taxes to the occupying power but said only, "Let Caesar have what belongs to him, and God have what belongs to him" (Matthew 22:21). He was the original proponent of a separation of church and state.

Those who want the state to engage in public worship, or even to have prayer in schools, are defying his injunction: "When you pray, be not like the pretenders, who prefer to pray in the synagogues and in the public square, in the sight of others. In truth I tell you, that is all the profit they will have. But you, when you pray, go into your inner chamber and, locking the door, pray there in hiding to your Father, and your Father who sees you in hiding will reward you" (Matthew 6:5-6). He shocked people by his repeated violation of the external holiness code of his time, emphasizing that his religion was an internal matter of the heart.

But doesn't Jesus say to care for the poor? Repeatedly and insistently, but what he says goes far beyond politics and is of a different order. He declares that only one test will determine who will come into his reign: Whether one has treated the poor, the hungry, the homeless and the imprisoned as one would Jesus himself. "Whenever you did these things to the lowliest of my brothers, you were doing it to me" (Matthew 25:40).

Answer 3

The concept of politics was not like what we know it to be in the time of Jesus. There were no political parties, there was only occupation. Jesus was interested in how you treat one another and protecting the sancity of the soul. Jesus was not political, but his message has an effect on the political issues today.

Answer 4

If anything I've always been encouraged to be politically involved. Jesus doesn't talk to me, or else I'm not listening.

Answer 5

Jesus WAS polticially involved. Do you not remember him challenging the Pharisees and the Saducees? That's the whole reason they handed him over to the Romans.

He called out their hypocrisy.

Answer 6

Why don't you ask him yourself or don't you like talking to Jesus?

Answer 7

YES. And that should be all the answer you need.

I wont do the research for you.