Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state. ' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. . . We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.