To look at the fact—and this is a really important part—is that there was not just a negative sense of not being involved in the politics of the world, but there was a positive creating of the Kingdom of Christ through the Church. We can look at this strictly as a not involvement or non-conformity type issue or something like that, but it does miss a really important element that I think is missing today.
They were incredibly involved with world change, helping the social structure, helping to change the world and plant the Kingdom of Christ, and just didn't have time for the politics of this world.