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Many are calling the US church to repent from Christian Nationalism.
Having been raised with millennialist, dispensational, and fundamentalist beliefs, I’ve spent many years untangling my faith from Christian Nationalism.
Here’s a thread of questions I’ve asked along the way:
Having been raised with millennialist, dispensational, and fundamentalist beliefs, I’ve spent many years untangling my faith from Christian Nationalism.
Here’s a thread of questions I’ve asked along the way:
1. In what ways have we treated the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence with the same level of divine sacredness as the Bible and the creeds of our Christian faith?
2. In what ways do we revere the founding fathers of our nation and our preferred presidents with the same level of reverence as the Holy Apostles and the Saints of the church? Do we know more about the former than we do the latter?
3. In what ways have we treated America as having the same level of urgent mission and calling as Christ’s exclusive call has upon the church in the world?
4. In what ways does our view of the “end times” place America as playing a more central role in the events surrounding Christ’s return and judgment than the role of the church?
5. In what ways do we treat the American flag with the same level of symbolic reverence, even in our places of Christian worship, as the cross?
6. In what ways have we elevated the history of our nation to the same level of the sacred history of God’s people and Christ’s founding of His church?
7. Ultimately, in what ways have we defined our allegiance to our nation as the same as our allegiance to Christ and His kingdom?
If we don’t take time to at least contemplate these questions together as the American church, I think it will make it extremely difficult for us to discern a path forward, distinguishing between what is sacred and divine from what is the product earthly rulers and empires.
Moreover, it will make it utterly impossible for the world to understand what we mean when we declare Christ as the Lord of all.
May we begin to take intentional repentant steps towards renewing our minds and our allegiances to Christ and His kingdom. For our reputation as Christians in our culture moving forward depends on it.
