Kids say “no fair” all the time, and don’t think twice about it—adults should make life fair.

Big surprise—grow up, it’s still not fair, so there.

Accept that life is not fair, and get to work.

Or

Complain through life.

Or

Become a ‘promising’ politician.

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Actually one of the most appealing parts of politics—make lots of promises, and the complainers will cheer you and pledge to vote for you to “make things fair.”

That makes you feel like you’ve got power.

And if the complainers really mean it, they will actually give you power.

THEN . . .

No one dare talk about reality, what happens next, has happened before, what always happens.

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First a mouse trap

Then a rat trap

Then a bear trap

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First inclusion

Then acceptance

Then rights

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Then “equality”

Then “fair”

Then demands

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Then promises

Then more demands

Then restrictions

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Then rejection

Then hostility

Then more demands by the ‘powered’ politicians

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Then a knock on the door

Traps—become actual physical

Trap on wheels

Bigger trap downtown

No fair ?

Indeed

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Politicians who are offered power must decide . . .

George Washington said no to the offer himself—King George ? (ultimate irony!).

Donald Trump promised to give power back to the people, and did it, and capitalism rose again.

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Democrat candidates all clamor and shout in frenzy to give them power to make everything ‘fair’ for everyone.

But believe me—believe history—if any of these ‘promising’ candidates get the power they’re asking for to do what they’re promising—that is the day they will forget all the people they promised . . . because they now have power—and they won’t use it to make life fair, GUARANTEED!

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But as pointed and prophetic and ‘no brainer’ as all that may be, it is not the bottom line of this article.

In light of the enormous influence that culture and politics have had on the church in America, the parallels in the church with the above are frightening.

Churches have often gravitated to power . . . concentration of power in leadership and church hierarchy and even doctrine.

But my greater concern is people expecting the church to make something fair then, when stuff falls apart, because it’s supposed to stand for God.

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Problem is, the church has been following rather than leading, and doesn’t have a message much different than comfort promised by the world.

And when things turn ugly because the ‘promising’ politicians turn, on the people big time, the church won’t know what to do (in the same darkness, shock), because we have not stuck to the message of Jesus—plain and simple and sometimes hard.