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honestly, w/ everyone freaking out ab Christian Nationalism, I can confidently say that ppl my age who are both Christian & Nationalist don’t see America as specially blessed by God or a new Israel that God is using to carry out his plan. A lot of us just want to live in a
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country where Christian ethics & virtues are seen as the norm by which society should try & adhere to. This won’t make everything perfect because sin still exists, but no one can deny it would have a positive impact on culture. We should try to spread the gospel, not just
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in empty words, as James 2 so vehemently affirms, but in our works as well. W/ how far modernism has corrupted our culture, many Christians note that a key component of nationalism is pride for one’s nation, which leads to valuing the nation’s ethics, which leads to looking
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into the history behind where our values stems, which inevitably leads to broadly looking at western civilization, and finally arriving at the cornerstone of what the west is built on, Christianity. Many Gen-Z Christian men don’t hold to nationalism bc they idolize America
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as God’s new Israel, ultimately we see one of the key components of nationalism being an acknowledgement of the west’s foundation in Christianity. And sure, Christian Nationalism as defined by seeing America as one of God’s chosen nations may be a problem with boomer
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dispensationalists who think that America acknowledging Israel exists will give our nation prosperity, but the truth is they’re not our future. The future of western Christianity is in Gen-Z Christian men who confess Christ as King but are still loyal to their president,
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who acknowledge heaven as their true home but reject the gnostic notion that the material world, including their country, doesn’t matter, who hail God as sovereign but don’t use fatalism as an excuse for defeat, who despise the heretical presuppositions of Marxism but
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don’t blindly adhere to orthodox Free Market Liberalism. We are the future of the American church. We entered the furnace of postmodernism w/ no identity and unexpectedly came out as soldiers of Christ, finding community in the church & transcendent value in Christ
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our King. We are eager to serve him and spread the gospel. Are we flawed? 100%, we grew up on the Internet and were exposed to so much. But as we mature and as we learn to love others w/ a Christ-like love that’s contrary to the hippie evangellyfish love, you will come to
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realize that Christ is using us for something very important.
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