The international Christian community discusses election consequences.
Top evangelical leaders around the globe worry that the recent US presidential election has damaged Christian moral witness and will fuel discord abroad.
In a conference call Tuesday, a week after Donald Trump’s win, more than 70 ministry presidents, pastors, and scholars spoke with concern as they discussed the ramifications of the election on the global church. The call was organized by Doug Birdsall, current president of the Civilitas Group and a former top leader with the Lausanne Movement and American Bible Society.
Participants included a diverse span of American church leaders, representatives from Asia, Europe, and South America, and major Christian leaders including author Os Guinness and Sojourners president Jim Wallis.
“One of the things that America was stood for in the past was moral leadership and character. Over the past few decades it has slowly dissipated,” said Hwa Yung, the longtime bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. “In this election you have produced two candidates, both of whom are deeply flawed in character. The question people around the world are asking is, ‘Is this what America is today?’ The election has done great damage to your moral standing in the eyes of the world.”
International leaders noted that from a distance, American politics can get conflated with Christian priorities, given that a vast majority of evangelical Christians elected the new president into office.
“There is massive disappointment within Christian communities in most of central and eastern Europe, concern about the loss of credibility of Christian witness especially the credibility of the evangelicals,” said Peter Kuzmic, an evangelical scholar in Croatia. “If ...
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