Politicians and lies so close. They deceive people in most of their ways just to get their ways through so the question is that ,can pastor become a politician without telling any lies to get his way through?
Pastor can become a leader of a nation, a moral authority, but not a politician. He (or she) get power, although they do not want it.
Politicians greedily want power. And they are ready to receive and hold it at any cost (including through deception). Populism today demonstrates this.
But no one believes that Gandhi was a "politician", although he had a lot of power and authority. Because he had noble goals!