The Western world in general has bought heavily into the Enlightenment belief that ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ are divided by an unbridgeable gulf. In that setting, it makes sense to tell Christian people to stop meddling in political matters, stick to spiritual things, stay in your lane of pious niceties and keep your religious sentiments to yourselves. But the compartmentalisation of the spiritual and secular is foreign to Scripture and to most of church history.41 Secular government is still a divine servant and is therefore theological; the Church’s existence cannot be divorced from life within
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