Ministry leader and YouTuber Allen Parr woke up early on Wednesday morning to provide his social media followers with some words of wisdom following Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election.
“I woke up this morning with what I believe is a word from God on my heart for the people of God,” Parr said.
Rather than focusing on who is in office, Parr said he wanted to explore how Christians should respond to the results. He offered three key insights.
Allen Parr: Monitor Your Communication
Parr told Christians that this is not time to gloat just because the candidate they voted for won the election. “In other words,” he said, “if your candidate has won, don’t use this as an opportunity to boast or gloat…This is particularly important regarding how we conduct ourselves on social media.”
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“We need to remember that our brothers and sisters who may have voted differently than you did [might be] hurting, disappointed, [and] devastated,” Parr said. “It’s not becoming of us as a Christian to use this opportunity to hurt someone [or] to talk about someone when they are down.”
Parr then quoted Galatians 5: “Let us not become conceited or provoke one another, or be jealous of one another.” He also referenced Proverbs 24, which says, “Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall; don’t be happy when they stumble. For the Lord will be displeased with you and will turn his anger away from them.”
“So ask yourself,” Parr encouraged, “is this post [or] conversation communicating and encouraging a sense of togetherness and unity and peace, or am I being used as a tool of the devil to create more disunity and a lack of peace in the body of Christ?”
Allen Parr: Put Your Ultimate Faith in God
Describing his next area of response as the most important thought in his video, Parr said that “we have to put our ultimate faith in God. I know that’s a cliché. We say that all the time.”
“But listen,” he emphasized, “regardless of how you voted and who you voted for, as a Christian, we must always remember that we are not placing our hope in a political candidate.”
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Parr discouraged against making comments indicating that “Trump is the savior of our nation” or “now our nation is doomed.” Parr told Christians, “We are different than that. We are not of this world. We are in this world, but we need to operate from a different mindset—from a different perspective of faith.”
