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One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country
Inscribed near a broken chain at the base of the Statue of Liberty are these Give me your tired, your poor; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Lady Liberty proclaims freedom every day to anyone with a heart to hear her. Yet, although the opportunity to experience the benefits of legal freedom exists in our nation, many people still live in bondage to a number of injustices. In One Nation Under God , Dr. Evans addresses freedom, justice, economics, racism, education and politics from a kingdom perspective. Citizens will be moved to display biblical justice, thus working to build a society based on the foundational principles of God’s word. If God's people are to reverse the course that this nation is heading down, believers must care about what God cares about, and implement specific strategies to change this nation. This booklet is a part of the Life Under God series , a 5-book series adapted from the 5 sections found in The Kingdom Agenda , the legacy work of Dr. Tony Evans. This booklet is based on the “One Nation under God” section .
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2014
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Tony Evans
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Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States. Between 1976 and 2024, Evans served as senior pastor at the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States. Between 1976 and 2024, Evans served as senior pastor at the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
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May 31, 2018
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Moody Publishers. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
I must admit that I was unfamiliar with the author's writing, not least that this book was part of a large series that deals with the question of different levels of government and a sound biblical view of them [1]. This short book is a good introduction, I think, to the author's work, and I was curious enough about the author's other books that I will definitely seek to read more of them if they are available. The author himself is the founder of an urban-based national ministry and serves as a pastor in Dallas, Texas, and this book manages to avoid many of the unfortunate dichotomies that hinders the adoption of more socially-minded practices among morally conservative denominations and churches because the social gospel is (largely correctly) associated with an embrace of immorality while this book's embrace of justice comes with a healthy dose of respect and regard for the laws of God as well as the OT prophets, which is a message I can definitely approve of.
This slim volume, almost pocket-sized, is about 100 pages in length and contains four chapters between an introduction and conclusion. The author moves from why a nation needs God (1) to a look at the relationship between God and government (2) that shows that government has limited functions and serves the interests of God (not the other way around). After this the author looks at the connection between a nation and freedom (3) and demonstrates that without righteousness there will be no freedom from a variety of social ills. Finally, the author discusses the need for biblical justice (4), and unlike a great many writers who attempt this sort of discussion, he appears to have a good idea about what is involved in biblical justice. After the conclusion the author discusses the Urban Alternative in an appendix as a way of encouraging help for his goals at social renewal. Throughout the volume the author talks about his own life and his own experience and shows himself to possess at least some grasp of the Jubilee and the relationship of the Sabbath (in its expansive form) and liberty and justice, issues of considerable interest to me as a writer and speaker, and thankfully of the author here as well.
The author, in general, manages to combine a sound reading of the Bible that demonstrates the interests of God in providing as much liberty as people can properly handle with his own experiences as a black man involved in the ministry. His understanding of many levels of government and his desire to encourage self-government among his readers is demonstrative of a thoughtful way of breaking through the false dilemmas between different kinds of Christianity that exist in the United States. The author's boldness in looking at the message of the Hebrew prophets through the point of view of contemporary America leads him to demand a complicated and widespread turning to God unless we are willing to accept that God has cause to judge us for our disobedience to Him as a nation. The author speaks of collective sins and looks to reconciliation not only between man and God but between Americans and others, especially (not surprisingly) when it comes to matters of ethnicity. Perhaps strangely, given the author's biblical focus, is his desire to partner with public schools as an agent of positive social change, especially given the negative and ungodly social change that public schools have been so instrumental in pushing over recent decades.
[1] See, for example:
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2012...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2018...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017...
I must admit that I was unfamiliar with the author's writing, not least that this book was part of a large series that deals with the question of different levels of government and a sound biblical view of them [1]. This short book is a good introduction, I think, to the author's work, and I was curious enough about the author's other books that I will definitely seek to read more of them if they are available. The author himself is the founder of an urban-based national ministry and serves as a pastor in Dallas, Texas, and this book manages to avoid many of the unfortunate dichotomies that hinders the adoption of more socially-minded practices among morally conservative denominations and churches because the social gospel is (largely correctly) associated with an embrace of immorality while this book's embrace of justice comes with a healthy dose of respect and regard for the laws of God as well as the OT prophets, which is a message I can definitely approve of.
This slim volume, almost pocket-sized, is about 100 pages in length and contains four chapters between an introduction and conclusion. The author moves from why a nation needs God (1) to a look at the relationship between God and government (2) that shows that government has limited functions and serves the interests of God (not the other way around). After this the author looks at the connection between a nation and freedom (3) and demonstrates that without righteousness there will be no freedom from a variety of social ills. Finally, the author discusses the need for biblical justice (4), and unlike a great many writers who attempt this sort of discussion, he appears to have a good idea about what is involved in biblical justice. After the conclusion the author discusses the Urban Alternative in an appendix as a way of encouraging help for his goals at social renewal. Throughout the volume the author talks about his own life and his own experience and shows himself to possess at least some grasp of the Jubilee and the relationship of the Sabbath (in its expansive form) and liberty and justice, issues of considerable interest to me as a writer and speaker, and thankfully of the author here as well.
The author, in general, manages to combine a sound reading of the Bible that demonstrates the interests of God in providing as much liberty as people can properly handle with his own experiences as a black man involved in the ministry. His understanding of many levels of government and his desire to encourage self-government among his readers is demonstrative of a thoughtful way of breaking through the false dilemmas between different kinds of Christianity that exist in the United States. The author's boldness in looking at the message of the Hebrew prophets through the point of view of contemporary America leads him to demand a complicated and widespread turning to God unless we are willing to accept that God has cause to judge us for our disobedience to Him as a nation. The author speaks of collective sins and looks to reconciliation not only between man and God but between Americans and others, especially (not surprisingly) when it comes to matters of ethnicity. Perhaps strangely, given the author's biblical focus, is his desire to partner with public schools as an agent of positive social change, especially given the negative and ungodly social change that public schools have been so instrumental in pushing over recent decades.
[1] See, for example:
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2012...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2018...
https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2017...
September 8, 2019
Every voter and politician who calls on the name of the Lord needs to read this book.
September 25, 2015
I really enjoyed this book. It opened my understanding to how the government should really operate, from a kingdom stand point.
February 11, 2016
It was an excellent book in that scriptures backed up what was written and thus why I enjoyed it so much.
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