If we take these things:
1. Politics is the art and science of citizens handling their collective business; AND
2. Preaching is part of how God works to transform His people into the image and likeness of His Son, affecting their behavior in private and in public; THEREFORE
3. Any preaching which is not political is useless frippery because all preaching seeks to affect the behavior of listeners; affected listeners will behave in a certain manner in the collective business of the city; this is politics.
Love your neighbor as yourself is political preaching. So is render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
So also the Bible-driven ethics of marriage and family; equal value of all people regardless of race, gender, ethnicity; importance of life; value of education.
There is nothing worth preaching that does not, in some way, affect political behavior.
I preach politics, then, because if I preach Jesus is Lord, the behavior of citizens in community should be changed.
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