The public square has never been theologically or morally neutral. Therefore, the church must and will continue to heed its divine obligation to publicly speak the holy Word of God.
Only a godless culture would dare to claim that the public sphere is somehow neutral. Yet those who boldly lift their voices on behalf of the church and her Lord in the public sphere, are facing intensifying persecution for doing so.
Over the last few years, a frenetic buzz around “Christian nationalism” has spread across America. Is Christian nationalism, according to its most offensive definition, even a real threat in America? Are there any real and credible statistics supporting a menacing movement by extremist Christians seeking to theocratize America with white-supremacist neo-Naziism?.....
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......What fills the dark vacuum remaining when Christian culture is chased away? Look around you and see the bombardment of Western civilization once founded upon God’s Word and Christ’s church. God is the sovereign Lord of all human institutions and history, and faith in God’s providence has never justified a retreat from vocational obligations in the public sphere and the gifts of God of which we are called to be godly stewards.
Furthermore, Christians who criticize and discourage active Christian political participation indirectly embrace a national anti-Christian religion that unabashedly pursues the demise of the Kingdom of God and the gospel on earth. Which is a greater threat to church and society: the rhetorical phantom of Christian nationalism, or the real phenomenon of Christian apathy?