Guiding Congregations Through the Post-Election Season: A Toolkit for Church Leaders
Equip your congregation to navigate the post-election season with Faith+Lead’s free 2024 Election Toolkit. Filled with resources for fostering empathy, addressing complex issues, and promoting Gospel values over partisanship, this toolkit offers practical guidance for preaching, teaching, and living out justice and faith. Access these tools to help diffuse tension and encourage understanding as we walk together through challenging times. Learn more
As church leaders, we often feel the weight of guiding our congregations through politically charged times, especially during and after an election. Conversations are often fraught, and questions around the future linger. Our 2024 Election Toolkit offers resources specifically designed to help you address the challenges that arise as tensions run high, all while keeping Gospel values at the center.
What’s Inside the Toolkit?
The toolkit provides practical resources that help you navigate complex conversations, promote empathy, and ground discussions in faith rather than partisanship. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll find:
Guidance for Preaching and Teaching: Learn how to frame challenging topics from the pulpit, focusing on building trust and diffusing tension while rooting your messages in Gospel values over political viewpoints.
Tools for Empathy and Understanding: Access techniques that encourage empathy, helping congregants to respond to differing perspectives with grace, seeking understanding over division.
Living Out Justice and Faith: Reflect on ways to embody God’s love through justice, focusing on scriptural understanding of social issues rather than ideological lines.
The toolkit is available at no cost and serves as a resource you can revisit as needed throughout the election season. Whether you implement these resources immediately or keep them on hand for future conversations, our hope is that this toolkit will provide a sense of peace as you lead your community in faith.
How to Access the Toolkit
Visit faithlead.org/toolkit/2024election/ to learn more and sign up.
With this toolkit, we can collectively promote peace, understanding, and discipleship as core values in our congregations this election season. Let’s continue to support one another as we seek to live out Christ’s love in our communities.