From Brian McLaren: 

In each country, I heard Christian leaders – Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Traditional Protestants, and Roman Catholics – express amazement and dismay at the relative silence of the church in the USA. They see us, by and large, as a prime example of Bonhoeffer’s lament about Christendom “adjusting itself far too easily to the worship of power.” We are giving offense, but sadly, the wrong kind. For example, they hear frequent defenses by Christians in the USA – not of the weak and poor, but of the strong and powerful. About torture and violence, about “pride of power,” they hear too little protest from too few of us. They know we are against terrorism, but they don’t know if we are against American empire and domination.

Source: God’s Politics – Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian, christianity, politics, values

Indeed,  one DOES hear much more of power politics and who’s right,  and very little of the things that must be done,  or the task of the church to BE that community which reflects the Kingdom;  whose life IS the politic that participates in the Kingdom.