Posted on 04/10/2020 7:22:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Amid so many historic aspects to the 2020 election, one bit of important history may be getting lost. While Trump has ushered in a whole new era in politics, changes to American church life during the last four years have been sweeping. This essay will provide an introduction to the church's present battles, for readers who may not have been following Christian media or who find the situation confusing.
Church, state, and culture
In my first academic book, Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman, I examined the origin of the present-day "conservative" mind. I did not follow the familiar methodology of Russell Kirk, but tried to look at literature.
I see increasingly that the core of American conservatism blends traditional and unconventional thinking. (I went over this in detail in this column.) While many conservative writers like to trace everything back to Burke, I argue that Burke was both traditional and conventional; this left out a huge bloc of the American right that was irreverent, pugnacious, or defiant to everything that came with contemporary conventions: peer pressure, intellectual fads, condescending pronouncements from experts, arrogant social experiments. Burke took peer pressure seriously but wanted to balance it with longstanding cultural prejudices (he did not see prejudices as a bad thing). Burke could explain the existence of the National Review, but he could not explain phenomena like MassResistance moms risking their safety to blockade drag queen story hour.
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“Give me liberty or give me death”
For me, not so much. Not getting a potentially deadly virus by staying away from gatherings of large groups of people makes total sense.
I’d rather LIVE and return to church when the risk is low.
It doesn’t matter what my governor says about it, our pastor weeks ago closed our church. The service is podcast live Sunday mornings.
A WISE move. The “church” is a “WHO” not a “WHAT”.
I grew up in the prior American Lutheran Church. In 1988, they took a giant leap to the left when they merged with the communist ELCA, which is part of the communist-loving NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. All these denominations mentioned by the author belong to the NCC. Run, don’t walk away from them. Anyone still attending one of those denominations, is supporting the drift toward Communism, They are not churches at all as they are left wing political organizations.
Shortly after that disgusting merger I drove by a LCMS and went inside and asked the pastor if the LCMS had an official position on abortion. He assured me the domination is 100% prolife. I asked him if the LCMS belonged to the NCC. He assured me they did not. We’ve been LCMS since.
“How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” Matt 7:14 (DR)
That was prior to Christ’s crucifixion.
contrast with....
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9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb!”
The church is always seemingly small in the present but across time and dimension...we are massive!
Don’t forget...we of the living are always surrounded by a “great crowd of witnesses”. We are never alone, in Spirit and in truth!
I did not know that about Albert Mohler. I’ve seen him talk with RC Sproul and thought he was a good guy but never really looked into his politics. Yikes!
Where does the Bible say this?
The left has taken over EVERY institution down to sports, the military and now the churches, which were the our last bastions, and WE on the right have just laid down like a beaten dog. It’s been a total and complete cultural rout. And they ain’t done humiliating us yet.
I’ll let you search that one.
You made the claim that "the Church" is the bride of Christ. If the Bible doesn't say it, it ain't so.
So, please provide the Biblical evidence for this.
I blame the Lutherans and the whole Reformation thing.
Our Pastor is an old country boy also, ‘cept he is 6-3, 225. Speaks with a southern drawl and country as country is.
It is hard to find a church that actually teaches from the bible. Even some take one verse out of context to push an agenda. IMHO.
No, the Catholic Church of the time had already turned into what Francis is today.
That was why there was a Luther.
Ever read the Book of Revelation?
Sola scriptura church?
WHAT?? CALL THE BISHOP MONDAY!!
An important analysis.
One of the reasons I left my church of 27 years was leftist refugee and immigrant policies. Do little to help poor here but very active in bringing in more poor.
mdmathis6, you have made my point for me. you said “That was prior to Christ’s crucifixion.”
That there will be many saved souls in the throne room is not questioned. If 1% of the population over 2000+ years of the church era are there then there will be quite a crowd in that room. But what about the other 99%?
You assume that somehow the human condition and the requirements for salvation suddenly changed with the cross of Christ. This is not supported by Scripture. True, the mission of the Church is different from the mission of OT Israel but gentiles could be saved prior to Christ same as Jews can be saved after the Cross.
We left the Presbyterian USA denomination 20 years ago. We joined the conservative Wesleyan denomination. Prolife...
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