The Church, The World, The Gospel and Politics


Prayer opening the House of Representatives is to generic God not mentioning Master Jesus Christ but in the style of a Christian prayer.  There's a lot of bad mixing of The Church and The World.

See the position taken in a petition from Liberty University against the associated think tank, Falkirk Center, where it says, "The mission for the Church is not to wage war on the ‘cultural battlefield,’ but to make disciples and to build one another up", and, "associating any politician or political movement with Christianity bastardizes the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

So, what's the answer?  Christians are supposed to call people out of the culture and build each other up, and we should not associate a particular political movement with Christianity or any politician (except for politicians who are outspoken for Christ).  We are to do in the realm of politics and in culture the same things we are to do in general, and that is to walk circumspectly around The World, with the gentleness of a dove and the wisdom of a snake, looking to God to protect us from harassment that comes from The World.  The Church should be outshining The World in every area, not working with it or speaking to it.  Let the people who will be called out of The World see The Church in our actions and desire it and desire Christ, Whom they can clearly see as the miraculous initiator of the glory of The Church as we tend to our own matters, with our own spaceships and farms and hospitals and research, as we help each other, as separate from The World as we can be.  Of course, The World will try to steal it from us, possibly by making it difficult to be separate.  We don't have a city of our own, yet, to have a peaceful total separation from The World.  That will happen when The Master of Peace, our Master Jesus Christ, comes and brings peace with Him.  And so, taking things as they are right now, we can hold in our hearts the desire for peace and The Church can work together as much as possible.  Right now, we have the ability to form enclaves of work that helps each other but doesn't use money-based transactions inside them and are therefore not businesses and are therefore not open to the public.  Such Christian clubs are voluntary inside, though they will use money until they become self-sufficient.  If a farm never sells anything, it can donate everything, but only when Church discipline and a staunch attention is paid to the adherence to salvation doctrine, so we can have high assurance of only dealing with The Church inside these enclaves; even the Christian inside will need to produce good works to qualify for complete support, like the widow who must be known for her good works; following all the Bible's rules could bring us to such an enclave, but they all must be working in order for the whole to consist.  Without such adherence to the Bible, we are left with dirtier things, but what we have now does exist, and we must negotiate what we have now the best we can, always tending toward the better goal.

Let's try to do each one his part as God gives gift, and make it a high calling to not argue with the work of other Christians.  In the case of a University connected to a think tank that seems to be against the same goal, they might still be doing their best when their friction arises.  They might have to separate, letting God judge the matter for each individual, so no one is disturbed by the actions of the other.

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