Politics and the Pulpit

Posted on November 11, 2026 
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Wise advice from David Cook – some extracts:

“I am writing in October 2026, roughly halfway through the second term of the Albanese Federal Government in Australia.

The Federal election must be held by May 2028 and State elections are due in Victoria in November this year and in NSW in March 2027.

Newspoll, a most accurate polling group, has about 30% supporting the incumbent centre left to left Labor Government, 30% supporting the right wing One Nation and 20% supporting the centre right to right Coalition. …

The singleminded focus of the pulpit must be on the plan of God to call a people who follow Christ and live lives transformed by the Holy Spirit, to be Christlike representatives of the new creation, keeping focused on eternal reality. …

What applies to our sports stars and entertainers to stick to your sport and your art, keep your politics to yourself, applies equally to the pulpit.…

Keep your views of Trump, Albanese, Taylor, the Greens, and Hanson to yourself, it’s all so unnecessarily divisive and entices the attention of the sheep from where our eyes ought to be, firmly fixed on the Lord Jesus.”

– Take the time to read it all – at The Expository Preaching Trust. (emphasis added)

Related:

1 Timothy 2:1-4: “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” – ESV.

Bishop J. C. Ryle on Christian Zeal – at Monergism.

Image: David at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate.