Tony Evans (pastor)

Anthony Tyrone Evans (born September 10, 1949) is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, and author. Quotes All points of view should start with God's point of view,. What motivated me was the chaos, confusion, and divisiveness that I was seeing among Christians where we were allowing the political landscape to inform our biblical worldview rather than our biblical worldview informing the political landscape. And whenever you see the church of Jesus Christ being divided, you have exited God from the environment. And what Christians don't understand is that our discourse has marginalized God because it has divided God's people and God will always exit illegitimate division. Believers should always speak with grace, We should always speak with a spirit of love without compromising truth. But we always start with truth because that's God's perspective. We want to make biblical points, which should always be done with the spirit of humility, grace, and love. If we were back in slavery and there were two candidates running for office and one was for abortion, but against slavery, and the other one was for slavery and against abortion, if you're a slave you may be against abortion but you're going to vote for the one who's against slavery because that is your situation in life, People's situation in life will affect what they prioritize and what they prioritize will determine how they vote. When you look to politics as a solution, you have idolized that institution above the God that created it. And so, we, unfortunately, today we have Democratic and Republican Christians who are political idolaters. What we're experiencing now in our culture is what I call the passive wrath of God. What we are seeing today is chaos. You can't solve what's wrong in our culture today by Air Force One. Second Chronicles 15, verse three to six says, 'There was chaos in the land for God troubled them with every kind of distress.' If God is your problem, it doesn't matter who you elect. If God is your problem, you better get that straight. You should pray for local and national leaders that they will be influenced to make the right decisions, But prior to praying for them, we need to pray for us. If we are not getting right, if we are not unified, if we are not biblio-centric in our focus, if we are not applying consistently God's regulations, guidelines, and governances in where we live and the influence we have, that we can't expect the culture to change. To put it another way, until God can fix the church, he won't fix the nation. 'Returning God to Government': Dr. Tony Evans Tackles Christian Disunity and God's Place in Politics, April 18 2024 External links Category:Pastors Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:1949 births Category:Evangelicals Category:African Americans Category:People from Baltimore Category:Living people