The 2024 Election Season Toolkit

Discover resources, tools, and practices to navigate the unique challenges of election season for your congregation in this email toolkit.

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The election season is here, bringing unique challenges for church leaders. Have you noticed tensions rising in your congregation or community? Maybe once-close relationships have become strained, or you’re noticing arguments between members on social media (or, heaven forbid, during coffee hour).

If challenges like these sound familiar, you’re not alone. The divisions and disconnections in our congregations and communities are symptoms of a bigger problem: a lack of deep Christian formation and discipleship. Help your members become more rooted in their identity in Christ, enabling them to embrace differences and address conflicts productively this election season with the tools you’ll find in these emails.

What to expect

  • Learn more about the pivot from membership to discipleship, and get reflection questions and tools to apply it in your ministry context.
  • Get tools to help foster empathy and understanding among your members, even in politically charged conversations.
  • Gain biblical strategies and techniques to actively promote peace and prevent division in your sermons and teachings.

What’s Inside

Help the people you lead become more rooted in their identity in Christ so that they can become more comfortable with the differences among them and:

  • Respond to politically charged conversations with empathy; 
  • Seek to understand opposing views rather than letting division take root; 
  • Speak the truth in love, not hostility; and
  • Actively promote peace and understanding.

From the pulpit, help your congregants root their identity more deeply in Christ, by equipping them to engage with complex issues through the lens of faith, by using your sermons to:

  • Build trust through authentic relationships and genuine love for your entire congregation;
  • Diffuse tension with appropriate use of humor and opening hearts to challenging messages;
  • Focus on Gospel values rather than partisan talking points;
  • Address difficult topics with both conviction and compassion.

Embrace and cultivate a culture in your congregation of loving our neighbors in tangible, systemic ways that reflect the Kingdom of God by:

  • Grounding our understanding of justice in Scripture, not political ideologies.
  • Seeking to understand opposing views rather than letting division take root; 
  • Speaking the truth in love, not hostility; and
  • Actively promoting peace and understanding.