That is not to reduce the Church to a social action network, or to align it too closely with one political faction. It is to affirm what we know to be intuitively true, that our evangelical convictions about God putting the world to rights are only as strong as the evils we tolerate. So, whether we are resisting racism, illegal land seizures or a government controlled by gambling lobbyists, corruption and censorship, we must ask whether the governing bodies deserve our obedience, our dissent, our civil disobedience or our uncivil disobedience. This is no academic question but an in-your-face
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