Thread by @sometimesalight

One more thought about Q of nationalism, globalism, & Christian's relationship to country:

For folks interrogating their own practices & paradigms, please entertain the possibility that you might not yet have all the necessary pieces to construct a healthy dynamic.

For example, as you become aware of threat of Xian nationalism, you might be tempted to rebound to a kind of globalism that doesn't necessarily move you forward.

What you'll need to add to your toolkit is understanding of place, Providence, & neighbor-ness. What you need is a more robustly developed ethic that teaches you how to love & serve God above all other loyalties w/in the specific boundaries he has placed on you.

You'll have to learn to live in the tension of being called to be salt & light in a specific nation. To celebrate her blessings & call out her evils. To seek the peace of the city to which you've been taken.

And this is where majority white evangelicals have a TON to learn from our minority brothers & sisters. Being in the majority tends to make us blind to the evils of our city. We're far too comfortable as citizens of it.

But those whose citizenship has always been from margins have a particular strength that those of is in the center don't. They've had to wrestle w/ & come to terms w/ being strangers & pilgrims.

Again, all that to say, that we're not seeking to be either nationalists or globalists. We're seeking how to live faithfully as Christians in the places to which we've been called. This will require new categories & a particular kind of imagination.