To be nonpartisan as a church means that the leaders do not endorse candidates for political office from their pulpits; and that members of the church are free to belong to any political party (or no party) as they choose. Nonpartisan churches do not believe that any political party or candidate is 'divinely ordained' for political office.
However, it is a good and right thing for churches to be *political* in the way that Jesus was political--in the sense that Jesus was directly concerned and engaged with what was happening in the Polis, the city. Community-engaged churches work to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, befriend the lonely and outcast, heal the sick, welcome the foreigner, tend to the dying, and to work for justice for the poor and oppressed.
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