At least intuitively, everyone seems to recognize that when you reject the idea of Christian civil society, some essential element of life is left unaccounted for, and so you must expand the church’s functions and roles in the life of a believer. As a result, you get a church full of programs, ministry teams, and on-site outlets for Christian resources for most areas of life. You effectively get an ecclesial-civil association—a conflation of two species of association that effectively confounds both.
