What is the greater grief—a compromised church or a compromised nation? Which more afflicts the heart of God’s people—a morally declining country or a spiritually diseased congregation?
I’ll answer in seven points.
1. CHURCHES CONSTITUTED BY CITIZENS OF EVERY NATION
We begin with clarity: local churches are made up of Christians who have covenanted together to walk in the ways of their crucified Lord. There is no such thing as a Christian nation. The new covenant people of God are gathered from every kingdom, tribe, and nation, and they testify together that “here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come” (Heb. 13:14).
Ham-handed efforts to shoehorn Old Testament texts and principles into the life of modern nations will not work—the patterns and precepts, the warnings, and the exhortations are written “for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Cor. 10:11), not for nation-states.
2. YET CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT WITHDRAW BUT PREACH THE GOSPEL
Does that mean we withdraw from the world? Should we become modern monastic communities, ignorant of and distant from the things happening on our doorstep?
Absolutely not! We preach the gospel as the way to glorify God and, incidentally, as
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