Three wrong postures for a Christian toward politics and one right posture:
1) The Jonah option--withdraw. Forget those nasty Ninevites. Flee to Tarshish.
2) The Judah option--capitulate. Make peace with the world for the sake of its silver.
1) The Jonah option--withdraw. Forget those nasty Ninevites. Flee to Tarshish.
2) The Judah option--capitulate. Make peace with the world for the sake of its silver.
Probably the biggest temptation for evangelicals:
3) The Peter-with-a-sword-in-the-garden-of-Gethsemane option--utopianism/worldliness. We mean well, but give short-term political outcomes an outsized importance and fail to see the bigger realities at stake.
3) The Peter-with-a-sword-in-the-garden-of-Gethsemane option--utopianism/worldliness. We mean well, but give short-term political outcomes an outsized importance and fail to see the bigger realities at stake.
A better posture:
4) The Daniel option--represent. We have a pagan king who might feed us to the lions. But we serve him with honor, never fearing him, because we know the Lord holds the king in his hands, and we represent the Lord.
(From How the Nations Rage)
4) The Daniel option--represent. We have a pagan king who might feed us to the lions. But we serve him with honor, never fearing him, because we know the Lord holds the king in his hands, and we represent the Lord.
(From How the Nations Rage)
Oops. "Judah" supposed to be "Judas."
