What about politics? Part 2

As I have stewed(prayed, thought) over this some more, I was reminded of a bible story.

In the small book of Philemon, there is a story about Onesimus. Basically, Onesimus was an escaped slave. Paul met him while in prison and shared the gospel with him. After rejoicing in his conversion, Paul wrote this letter to his former master, and did something that would be unthinkable in today's world. He sent him back to his slave life.

There are so many different ways to go here. It is clear that Paul knew that Onesimus' salvation was the most important thing, nothing else even comes close. Once he was heaven bound, 
his earthly perspective changed. Paul did not rejoice in his escape, but rather 
counseled him to "render unto Caesar" and go back to his master. Paul knew that for Onesimus' 
witness to be the strongest it could be, he must be in good standing with the law.

How would this play in the world today? Paul would be ripped by the media. "How can a so-called "christian" send a slave back to slavery?" "Paul's race doesn't care about Onesimus' race!"
He would be ripped by these "social gospel" churches. Surely a lawsuit of some kind would result.

But if we step back from all of this emotion and look at the biblical principles, Paul would be doing the right thing. As followers of Christ, we have our first allegiance to God's word. Nowhere does it tell us to run from slavery. Matter of fact, it tells us to be the best slave possible, in order to lead our master to Christ. His word never tells us that we are owed a better place in society because of some past injustice. It tell us to bloom where we are planted, to seek out the people around us and share with them.

We must move away from this "social gospel" thinking. It ties all of our emotion and passion to things that when looked at from an eternal perspective don't matter all that much.