Evangelicals Today and William Wilberforce

I recently ran across a Facebook post by a Christian blogger who's pretty well known for his writings on political subjects - "If William Wilberforce was on earth today, some evangelicals would tell him he's too political." I can think of a counter-statement that definitely holds true - "If the Apostles and the Apostolic Fathers were on earth today, most evangelicals would tell them they're too apolitical."

Charlemagne and the Problem of Fake Zions

Thus is the end of the cause to establish “Christian” realms, an engagement in futility for of it we have no command, being required by Christ and the Apostles to live as pilgrims and martyrs, bearing witness for Christ in a world that will soon be burned with fire. Charlemagne’s dream was to build Zion on Earth, and many a revisionist seeks to read that into the annals of history. However every attempt to establish a Zion, only leads to the formation of a counterfeit, a distraction from the true Zion we Christians are part of and told to build. Charlemagne’s Kingdom wasn’t a kingdom based on righteousness, but one of corruption, wickedness, murder and lust.

Why Do I Oppose Dominionism?

Dominionism has no value nor can it ever provide any hope or joy for Christians outside of christianized cultures. The Afghan Christians being slaughtered by the Taliban and the Sub-Saharan Christians who live on 30$ a month receive no comfort in temporary cultural experiments engaged by us affluent Christians. My church often prays for our brothers in Cuba who struggle to survive and provide a single meal with meat to their families and are in short supply of basic necessities. Their only comfort in life and death is the return of Christ, not some false hope in a temporary cultural experiment.

The Dominion Mandate After the Fall and Noah

God's people do not have a command to take Dominion of the physical world and/or to mix with the heathen nations of this world to engage in temporal cultural experiments. This goes back to understanding the very purpose of the command to take Dominion. Its not restated because it is impossible for those who engage in the command to fulfil its original purpose in the present state of the world.

Christianity and Culture

Let us then like the Early Church and the Christians during the apostasy of Rome accept persecution, suffering and the reality that we will always be a remnant saved by grace (Rom 11:5) and not a conquering majority. Indeed the Apostle Paul has called us more than conquerors in our Lord (Rom 8:37). Yet our conquest and success is not visible in materialistic terms and would never be considered success by the standards of depraved man. The Apostle never asserts that our conquest lies in the establishment of a Christian State but posits that it lies in all the afflictions we face for being part of the Kingdom of God while living in a world filled with darkness. We are more than conquerors because the Light has already triumphed over the darkness. Christ is victor, we have no need to establish a Christian Country. The only Christian Country that ever will be has already been established, it is the Church, the Kingdom of God, with Jesus Christ as King.