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Why do pastors shrink from a “political approach?” They are asked by campaigns to endorse their candidate, to stand with their candidate, some are even paid to do those things. Pastors have a higher calling - that calling is to God above and no party nor candidate warrants that type of honor.

These are the biggest reasons pastors recoil when asked to be overtly political:

a. They’ve been lied to intentionally by those who seek to keep the church from being influential;

b. They’ve been burned before by political people who have taken advantage of the pastors in their area or state;

c. They don’t know American history eno