The Grace of Government

In our contemporary world we are prone to look at the bums in Washington, DC and feel disgust. Throw the bums out!! Pacifists today feed off this resentment, delighting in pointing the failures and brutality of government in comparison to Jesus and the Kingdom of God. Jesus and the church are supposed to represent the foretaste of the Kingdom of God, and the way of Jesus and his Kingdom are peace. The opposite of this Kingdom is the â??American Empire,â? with violent and overweening pride, and anything else that we can slap on the label of â??empire,â? â??colonialism,â? and â??imperial.â? We see abuses by police or government corruption in the news every day. How are we to respond?