We, the church, lost on November 8. This is not a political statement. This is a spiritual statement for the Body of Christ. While we lament the dividing of our country, I see a more devastating division at work. The enemy, in all his wiles and craftiness, has subtly driven a wedge into the Body of Christ. A fresh spear in his side if you will.

My sadness over the results of November 8 is not that one person was elected and another not. My sadness is what I fear the process has done or is doing to the church. We talk of a nation divided but we are a church divided. While some are celebrating the decision, others are apologizing for the results. I was amazed at the number of vehemently negative posts on social media the morning after. And most were of a nature of brother against brother.  Many asking how the church could let this happen? I am assuming that was a vote against the way things turned out.

I follow Trump, I follow Clinton, I follow a Libertarian, I choose not to vote. Can I remind everyone that we were choosing between unrighteous, ungodly people? How can this be! How can we allow the powers of this world to come between brothers and sisters in Christ? Is Christ divided? Was Trump crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Hillary? Why the sharp lines in the sand? Why the hostility to an ideology, a worldview, a political agenda, that neither mirrors nor aligns with the cause of Christ?

We are acting as if the person in the white house will determine whether the church will be able to do what it is called to do. That somehow with this man in the oval office, or woman, had she won, all hope is gone. Where is your hope? If the right person isn’t elected, we are doomed. But Jesus said he will build is church and the gates of Hades, or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, will not prevail against it. Church, we serve a kingdom that will not fail!

God is sovereign! I am assuming that most of you as believers prayed that God’s will would be done in this election. Was it? We have no idea what His plans for President Trump may be, how the hand of God will affect the heart of the king (small k).

This morning I got up like every other morning and went to my office at the church and was reminded that my job, my purpose, was what Paul called the Ministry of Reconciliation. No legislation over the next 4 years, or the last 100 years, will have the ability to change that. My purpose in Christ is greater than the oval office.

2 Timothy 2:4, “No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.”

Have we gotten so concerned over this world’s civilian affairs that we have lost focus on the unity of the body and the ministry of reconciliation? Did I vote? Of course I did. I have voted in every election since I was eligible to vote in 1982. Did I win? I don’t think anyone ever wins. And this time, we have lost more than we think.

Have we allowed the Democratic process, a civilian affair, to drive a wedge between spiritual brothers, to cause us to forget the source of power that we DO operate under. To forget that Jesus’ mandate to us was to make disciples, going into all the world, teaching and baptizing. November 8^th did not change that. The outcome did not hinder that or enhance it. It does not have the power. The gates of Hades will not overcome.

Let us repent of the divisions we have allowed to creep into the body of Christ and come together as the army of God that He has designed us and empowered us to be. Let us reevaluate what is most important as a soldier of Christ. We serve a kingdom that will not fail. Not even November 8^th can change that.