Ms Stewart rightly articulates what many of us have known for some time.
Bad exegesis and bad theology amount to a belief system that gives us an immoral, ignorant, dishonest, and dishonorable leader whom some Christians laud as the providential work of their god. This remains bad news, for the United States, yes, and more so for Christ’s church, which sullies and imperils its witness by supporting a corrupt man like Donald Trump and places its trust in chariots, horses, and princes and, in so doing, worships idols.
We are reminded, however, that it is Christmastide, the season of God breaking into the world to redeem and restore, and in just a few days we celebrate the Epiphany, the remembrance that God’s savior has appeared to all the world. Evangelicals in the United States are not the sum of Christian belief nor are they constitutive of the Christian church throughout the world. And Donald Trump, whatever his vain imaginations or that of his followers, is not our king.
There is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church and there is but one King. That some Christians at some times are confused, misled by false prophets, and corrupt is foretold in the Scriptures. That God’s people sometimes clamor for a king other than their Lord and that those who claim to be Christian make false claims about Christ is likewise foretold in the Book.
Like the magi who came to worship Jesus at the Epiphany, it is ours in 2019 to offer Christ our good gifts and to be shrewd about the Herods in our midst.
Happy New Year!
Bad exegesis and bad theology amount to a belief system that gives us an immoral, ignorant, dishonest, and dishonorable leader whom some Christians laud as the providential work of their god. This remains bad news, for the United States, yes, and more so for Christ’s church, which sullies and imperils its witness by supporting a corrupt man like Donald Trump and places its trust in chariots, horses, and princes and, in so doing, worships idols.
We are reminded, however, that it is Christmastide, the season of God breaking into the world to redeem and restore, and in just a few days we celebrate the Epiphany, the remembrance that God’s savior has appeared to all the world. Evangelicals in the United States are not the sum of Christian belief nor are they constitutive of the Christian church throughout the world. And Donald Trump, whatever his vain imaginations or that of his followers, is not our king.
There is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church and there is but one King. That some Christians at some times are confused, misled by false prophets, and corrupt is foretold in the Scriptures. That God’s people sometimes clamor for a king other than their Lord and that those who claim to be Christian make false claims about Christ is likewise foretold in the Book.
Like the magi who came to worship Jesus at the Epiphany, it is ours in 2019 to offer Christ our good gifts and to be shrewd about the Herods in our midst.
Happy New Year!