This election season is the kind of thing history is made of, because in one way or another, history is going to be made. It will be so not just with the election of a new president, but because of who that president will be. It might, for example, be the first woman. Or the first Latino. Or the first Trump. I know in my lifetime I’ve never seen a candidate more polarizing, and that’s what is so baffling to me.

Although Trump has a wide range of controversial views and policies, it is his stance on immigration that often makes the most headlines. For example, it has been rumored that Trump plans to introduce a wealth test for Green Cards.

In the US, a Green Card is essentially a permit that allows foreign nationals to live and work permanently in the US. At the time of writing, if you have applied for Permanent Residence in the US and you have not yet received your Green Card, or your Green Card is about to expire and you are in the process of renewing it, you must obtain an I-551 stamp. You can learn more about securing a Green Card, immigration, and the i-551 stamp on the Nova Credit website.

If he is successful, it will be intriguing to see whether Trump is able to have any influence on immigration in the US.

So, where does social media stand where Trump is concerned?

I scroll through my Twitter timeline, look on Facebook, and converse with my friends, but in all those environments have yet to find a single person supporting Donald Trump. Quite the opposite in fact. It seems like to me it’s an endless scroll of anti-Trump posts, statements, pictures, and memes. Which leaves me with the very obvious question:

Where are all the people who do support him?

To find the answer, you have to know a little bit about how a social media site like Facebook curates their content. The algorithm Facebook uses to determine what shows up in your newsfeed is based on your preference. It an ever-changing stream of things most similar to what you’ve previously clicked on, watched, liked, or whatever. So just because one of your friends posts something, it doesn’t mean it’s going to show up in the top of your timeline. Instead, what you find there is what is most like you. And that’s how Donald Trump is teaching me about evangelism.

We naturally congregate with people who look like us, think like us, earn like us, and even vote like us. Facebook even does it for us. What happens most of the time, then, is that we are always and without exception around Christians. Or to put it another way, if left to ourselves we will always do for ourselves what Facebook does for us right now – curate our lives so that everything that comes into our sphere of vision squares exactly with our belief system.

But Jesus has called us out of that. He’s called us to go into the world – all the world – and meet hostility head on with compassion, judgment head on with love, anger head on with service. But we must know our tendency to flock together well enough to know that we cannot be trusted with this assignment. We must take direct action, knowing that if we do nothing, we will always and forever surround ourselves with people just like us.

• How do we do that? There are a myriad of ways and possibilities:
• Coach a kids sports team
• Frequent the same grocery store, restaurants, or gym
• Volunteer at the school
• Get to know the parents of your kids’ friends
• Spend your leisure time in public places

What do all these things have in common? Intentionality. It’s that whatever you do to put yourself in greater proximity with people who don’t believe like you, you do it with reason and purpose. You start to make choices, set priorities, and create margin in your life specifically so that you can bridge the gap from where you are, to where they are.

Regardless of what happens in this election, it has shown me that there is a great chasm between the people I’m most comfortable being around and everyone else. And it is a chasm that I must be willing to step into for the sake of the gospel.