I wrote a paper a few years back I never published called CHINA IN A BULL CLOSET [considering Christians in politics :-)] My thought back then was that politics is fine for the called individual…but that the over-arching call on all of us as believers is to be engaged in our faithful ‘witness’ and discipleship / mentoring toward Christlikeness.
I proposed the following passage as THE opportunity for Christ to tell us that we should really obsesses on changing the government as the Church’s role on earth…but He doesn’t.
See for yourself (Luke 13:1-5):
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. (ESV)