“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” H. L. Mencken
Last night was a disaster for the Unites States of America. But how does the Christian respond? For myself, I am more than ever reminded that “here we have no continuing city, but we look for a city whose builder and maker is God.” (Heb. 13:14, 11:10) This isn’t the first time since Pentecost that a great empire has fallen. This isn’t the first time God’s people have been forcibly reminded that we are strangers and pilgrims in this fallen world.
How, then, do we respond to what happened last night? May I suggest with divine indifference? Surely Christians know that the Kingdom does not come through the ballot box, but by God’s Spirit. Surely our first task is to build that Kingdom while the nations crumble. Nothing that happened last night can have the slightest effect on our Kingdom mandate. In fact, when disaster comes (economic, social, educational, etc.), as it inevitably will, we will be in a better position to be Kingdom builders than at any time in the past 100 years!
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Face it, Shafer. You can’t be remotely right-wing anymore without suffering attacks from the left-liberal lobby. There is a growing “Christian left” who are attacking anyone who supports a literal reading on the essentials of the faith and things God never changes his mind on, like gay marriage and abortion. These people are calling for people who take the bible literally in these matters to ‘grow up’ and read the bible with an open mind. While we all (especially me) have a lot to learn as we are conformed daily to the image of the perfect Christ by yielding to the Holy Spirit, we can safely say that God has never and will never change His mind on such things. Yet we are quickly slipping into the minority as the wheat is separated from the chaff…I expect that to avoid prison and civil prosecution, soon His church will have to capitulate to Brian McLaren theology and join the ranks of those who spurn the clear teachings of the Word in favor of a mob-friendly leftist-liberal view.
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