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John Wesley
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Matthew 20:25-26, Matthew 23:11-12, Luke 22:26, James 3:14-16, Genesis 41:, 2 Samuel 15:, 1 Kings 21:
The highest offices of the state and church resemble a pyramid whose top is accessible to only two sorts of animals-eagles and reptiles.
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Patrick Schreiner
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Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 5:13-16, Genesis 1:27, Luke 10:25-37, 1 Timothy 2:1-2
Christian politics concerns how we integrate our confession that Jesus is Lord with our call to love our neighbors.
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Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald Guthrie
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Every ministry context-whether in the family, a church, or another organization-has a complicated structure of relationships. The capacity to act and to influence others is largely a result of the his...
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Justin Giboney
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Psalm 2:10-11, John 18:36, Matthew 5:13-16, Jeremiah 29:7, Micah 6:8, 1 Samuel 15:22
We can’t separate what we believe in the political arena from who we are in Christ and what obedience to God demands...That said, not every tenet of Christianity should become the law of the state. We...
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Roy E. Ciampa and Brian S. Rosner
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1 Corinthians 12:, Romans 12:4-8, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 4:11-16, Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 5:30, John 13:34-35
God put the body together in such a way that those who experience honor in this life and those who do not are to astound the world by their unity and their concern for one another.
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Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald Guthrie
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- Church Politics
- Power
Most people entering ministry- are idealistic about their own and others’ capacities to act and to influence others. Our wishful thinking compels us to expect all the adults involved in our ministries...
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Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald Guthrie
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All of life is political-incorporating the themes of power, interests, negotiation, and ethics.
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David Fitch
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The standard account of power says there’s only one kind of power in the world and we, the good people, must get on the right side of it, using it to bring justice into the world. Power is power. It i...
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Eugene Cho
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
The crux of our dilemma is that for some Christians, we’ve allowed our politics to inform our theology rather than our theology and worship of the Christ informing our politics.
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Gavin Ortlund
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The gospel is not identical with either a conservative or progressive ideology. It will at times correct both.
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Phillip Yancey
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with p...
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Phillip Yancey
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
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Jake Meador
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- Politics
When the church, in the name of political power, allies and aligns too much with the current secular left or right, it is sapped of both spiritual power and credibility with nonbelievers. Theologicall...
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Charles Hodge
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The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
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Michael Wear
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Christians: The crisis is not that you are politically homeless. The crisis is that we ever thought we could make a home in politics at all.
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Abraham Kuyper
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God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and nee...
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Phillip Yancey
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Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus’ love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It ...
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Eugene Cho
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
Many Christians are not only passionate about politics but are also involved in politics on some level. And yet, I would argue, at times, we are played by politics. At times, our identities and values...
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Rich Villodas
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
The Church is not to be found at the ‘center’ of a left/right political world. The Church is to be a species of its own kind, confounding both left and right, and finding its identity from the center ...
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Phillip Yancey
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- History
- Religion and Politics
History shows that when the church uses the tools of the world's kingdom, it becomes as ineffectual, or as tyrannical, as any other power structure. And whenever the church has intermingled with t...
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Abraham Lincoln
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Lesslie Newbigin
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Colossians 1:13-14, Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 5:2-3, James 4:4, Philippians 2:5-8, John 18:36
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.
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G. K. Chesterton
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- Government
- Church and State
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
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R. C. Sproul Jr.
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Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the...
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Lesslie Newbigin
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The Church has outlasted many occupants of Caesar’s throne and will outlast more, for the truth entrusted to her is the truth of God.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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- America
The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America, equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preservi...
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John Wesley
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- Politics
The highest offices of the state and church resemble a pyramid whose top is accessible to only two sorts of animals-eagles and reptiles.
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Tony Evans
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Matthew 25:40, Isaiah 1:17, James 1:27, Philippians 2:3-4, Proverbs 29:2, Matthew 5:9, Romans 13:1
Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.
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Deanna A. Thompson
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To call the community in Corinth “the body of Christ” that proclaims Jesus as Lord, then, counters a culture that proclaims that Caesar is lord, where Caesar is seen as ruler and head of the body. Onc...
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Kenneth E. Bailey
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Mark 11:25, Matthew 6:12-15, Matthew 18:21-22, Luke 6:37, Luke 6:27, Luke 17:3-4, Luke 23:34, Matthew 26:28, Matthew 5:23-24, Matthew 5:44
Jesus is a reconciler of people, not a divider. He wants to bring people together, not finalize separations.