When
you wrap the cross in anything--and the most dangerous "wrap" may be
nationalism--you greatly undermine the message of the cross. As I've
said before the gospel is not "go into all the world and make Americans
of everybody." Stop and think about that for awhile and it will make
you shudder. And as I've also said before, the church--God's
people--His royal priesthood--are scattered like seeds
all over the world. And when God tells His Bride to remember the poor,
the widows, the orphans among His people (for starters), it means
wherever they are in His earth-wide body. Everywhere they are. If I'm
not mistaken, the one offering mentioned in the New Testament was the
one taken for the church in Jerusalem because they were in need because
of a famine. Churches taking an offering for poor churches in need.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Political power is the most ineffective power in the world when it come to producing a godly culture.
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