Politics Yada Yada Yada
Josh March 22nd, 2007
I used to get myself worked up over things of which I’m not in control. If I were of the same mindset, I could easily have a blog entry every day filled with political musings, constitutional banter, and pious words of political conservatism to ooh and ahh those who hunger and thirst after such- But do you know what I’ve found? I’m sick of it all. Don’t get me wrong, Christians, of all people, need to make their presence known in civic duties such as voting, etc. (even civil disobedience if Biblically called for). However, the mess in which we find ourselves, the state of this Union is in such a twisted knot that there’s only one way to cut the ropes and gain a new one: The Gospel.
Reformation came to Scotland, England, and the United States via the gospel because it alone has the freeing power which results in the subduing of tyranny. Gospel doesn’t make for good politics because, if revival is granted by God, the gospel doesn’t leave a people willing to be governed by tyrants. Now this is to show that Reformation must come from the inside out. I’m not talking about a coup d’état in which the Church takes a nation by physical force, implementing Biblical law and forcing it upon a whole mass of godless people who don’t want it. Rather, I’m talking about the work which the Gospel brings into the lives of sinful men. The US need not be trying to bring tyranny down in other nations, when she’s battling tyranny here! Those who’re in power are placed there by God, no doubt, but this doesn’t mean Christians withdraw as if there’s no hope.
No, we are to be salt and light. Salt preserves, heals, flavors, and stings. We must let our light so shine before men that they praise our Father in heaven. Consider this, our evangelism doesn’t merely consist of eternal purpose. It has an earthly purpose as well: The subduing of Christ’s enemies until they are a footstool. How’s this done? You got it, the gospel. If we were to press the gospel (and given that God grants repentance to those whom we press) there will be more Christians. The more authentic Christians exist, the more likely they’ll run for office and be voted into office by other Christians. We don’t decide to live this way because we think it can happen. We live our lives to see this reformation because God has commanded us to do so, despite how things may seem.
So, I steer clear of my needless rants most of the time and I try to focus on the real means of transformation and reformation of a society: The Gospel.
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Well I rant needlessly on these subjects, but take your point entirely. (That’s because I a gel, so talk a lot more than you men do!!)
But its a fact, and has been proved historically, and John Knox was a great proponent of it, that Presbyterianism and Tyranny cannot co-exist. We don’t have Presbyterianism at all in england, (there are 3 Presby churches in the whole of England) and I think that fact alone accounts for the godless nation we have become and the way we have gone in many ways. As England, spiritually, is in a far worse state than even America is. But yep, I agree entirely, my friend!