President Donald Trump ignited a national debate when he shared a comment referring to him by the messianic title of the "King of Israel." Whatever this says about President Trump, it unintentionally revealed a great deal about Western Christians' commitment to salvation by politics, and it brought to the surface a long-simmering question we must answer: Will we pursue cultural renewal through the sustained preaching and incarnation of the Gospel, or will we turn to a secular ruler for deliverance?
The evidence, to date, has not been encouraging. Many U.S. clergy seem to have adopted a strategy for preserving liberty that is diametrically opposed to that of the Founding Fathers. Instead, the modern Christian approach better reflects a biblical warning which, when ignored, leads to both tyranny and apostasy.
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