Pro-life leader, Scott Klusendorf of the Life Training Institute, was tackling the charge that evangelicals are too involved with politics. He argued that you can’t say Christians are too political unless you can demonstrate the following:

1. that Evangelicals as a whole are spending more money on political campaigns than they are on world missions and evangelism

2. that Evangelicals as a whole are spending more time lobbying their Congressmen than sharing Christ with friends at work

3. that Evangelicals as a whole are talking with their friends more about George W. Bush than they are Jesus Christ

4. that a majority of Evangelicals are politically savvy enough to know how a bill gets introduced in Congress and how to either defeat it or affirm it with coordinated lobbying efforts

5. that a majority of Evangelicals could tell you the current political state of affairs on key issues like abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning (for example, what does Roe v. Wade and it’s companion case Doe v. Bolton really say? What are the two competing cloning bills before Congress for the last three years and how do they differ?)

6. that a majority of Evangelicals could convey the moral logic of the pro-life position to friends and neighbors

7. that a majority of Evangelicals could name their Congressman, two federal Senators, State Senator, and State Representative.

8. that a majority of Evangelicals actually vote in most elections

9. that even 1 percent of Evangelical churches with 500 members or more are equipping their people to persuasively defend a pro-life worldview in the secular marketplace of ideas

Based on this test I would say only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of conservative Christians are too politically involved. Indeed, most need to become more politically involved, living out their faith in the public square where they can make a real moral difference.