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Volume 4 · CenteredLesson 42About 23 minutes

Christian Nationalism

Can a nation be Christian?

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The center · John 18:36
36Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

In this lesson

Many Christians have heard that their country was founded as a Christian nation, that it has drifted from God, and that faithful people must take it back. Sometimes the call is to pray. Sometimes it is to win: to put believers in charge, write the faith into law, and make the nation officially Christian again. The name for that second idea is Christian nationalism.

This lesson is not about whether you love your country, or whether your faith should shape how you vote. Both are good. It is about something narrower: whether he ever asked his followers to make a nation his. You don't need anyone's permission to follow him, inside a church or outside one, and you don't need a Christian government either.

Measured against the center

A contradiction
Seeking to make a nation Christian by law and power contradicts his refusal of the kingdoms of the world and his answer to Pilate.

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