Status Updates From When Politics Becomes Heres...

The American Evangelical Church is guilty of the modern heresy of Simony: the deployment of the language of faith to secure a position in politics.

Who's ready to learn about heresy? This guy!

"I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics. For, above all other spheres of human life, the Devil claims politics for his own, as almost the citadel of his power." -- C.S. Lewis, quoted p. 149

"Reflection on the person of Christ...will free us from politicizing Jesus because it will remind us that He comes from the outside...He is not a king with a this-worldly cause...He will never be the champion of any political program other than His own. He pulls down the mighty from their seats, and the rich he sends away empty. He calls us to follow Him, and blesses no ideology we have made." - pp. 118-119

This book is definitely fueling my "prejudiced and total non-participation in politics is an essential piece of Christian discipleship" fire.

"In...the intra-evangelical culture war, precious few are asking why calls to forsake either "woke" or "white" seem to outnumber those that advocate leaving "worldliness" behind, and by a disturbingly wide margin. Nobody...is comfortable asking why we're more comfortable writing and reading books that take the language of politics as foundational and the language of faith as mere rhetorical flourish." - p. 21

"The Spirit, as far as I can tell, has departed [evangelicalism]...We are by every conceivable metric a mirror of American culture: affluent, banal, blind to sin, and deaf to the the biblical calls to judgment and offers of grace...The calls to repentance and faith remain in the text...to encourage the few who have yet to bow the knee to Baal to remain faithful." - p. 3