The Perilous Place We Find Ourselves
The Grand (and gay) Old Party (GOP) is releasing a new ad this weekend featuring the most disgusting display of fear mongering I've ever seen. Repeated statements by Bin Laden are featured threatening an even greater -- possibly nuclear -- attack on American soil. The conclusion is that unless we vote Republican we are tempting the terrorists to set off nukes in the U.S.
I simply cannot refer to such people as adults or even decent. The political bantering in this country is at the level of Haiti or Somalia, and I hold no respect for either party or its leadership. The Republicans appear as hypocritical monsters. They are grossly immoral, war-driven power brokers whose hypnotic control is finally loosening from the minds of conservatives. The Democrats are no better, and I anticipate a great many Christians will avoid the polls in lieu of returning in 2008.
There are no political solutions to our national dilemmas. Our reliance must be upon the Lord. The Christian community must return to Him with a repentance made manifest in explicit, determined obedience to His law and covenant. Christian Reconstructionists bear a specific responsibility to speak along these lines, yet a good many theonomic leader has left the fold for the "deeper waters" of triviality, obscure literature, theological revisionism, and hip-hop! They are preoccupied with memorizing the multiple brands of ale and photographing themselves smoking cigars. My goodness, need I remind you men of your calling?
Get back to your post! In the name of Him whose eyes are in every place I admonish you to fall out of love with the latest theologian and work to reposition Christianity back upon its solid foundation -- the foundation of law and covenant.
Enough with metanarratives. Enough with "emergence." Enough with postmodernity. Why do you allow the moorings of a contemporary culture to determine your daily focus? Oh, what an intoxicating spirit is the liquor of relevance! The application of your prophetic office is not relevance to a capricious culture, but rather representation of the righteous Lord. Seek to conform men to God's standards rather than conform yourself to man's cultural folly.
What has happened to the once burgeoning army of reconstructionist thinkers, ministers, writers, pastors, and diligent laymen? Where have they wandered? What great theology carries such a superior allurement than that of applied Van Tillianism? Are they simply war weary? Are their spirits exhausted? Is it the power of the mailing list? What is the great explanation for the great dispersion?
Rushdoony and Bahnsen are gone just a few years and already theonomic leaders are toying with Pharoah and his chariots; and I have no other explanation than that of confusion. As was the handicap of ancient Israel today's Christian is "veiled" from "seeing to the end of what was established" (cf. 2 Cor. 3:14,15). When you lose sight of the direction of eschatological purpose you become consumed with the present. Since Israel could not see the goal of Old Testament history due to the veiling of their hearts and minds they wandered aimlessly and sought only to conform to other nations, i.e., they lusted for cultural relevance.
This led to national confusion and eventual captivity. Their national confusion was typified in the captivity in Babylon (the land of Babel, or confusion). It is therefore not enough to speak only of our election out of the bondage of sin (or "Egypt"), we must now speak of our election out of the captivity of confusion (or "Babel").
Our theonomic leaders used to point a clear path to the advancement of the kingdom. They were thoroughly contra-statist and their theology was the sole helmsman steering the once great ship of Christian Reconstruction. Now, that theology has been replaced. The blurring of the eschatological goal has left them captive in neo-Babylon and they can only think of relevance while dancing close to the precipice of drunkenness. Drunkards epitomize man's loss of purpose and calling. This would explain the blog pages dedicated by reformed men to their favorite brew.
And worst of all, the illustrious allegiance once directed towards Rushdoony and Bahnsen are now granted to the disgusting fascists in the White House, Pentagon, and State Department. And while a few remaining reconstructionists drone endlessly about returning to the "faith of our national founding fathers" they utter not a single peep about the encroaching police state brought on by the false flag terror attacks of the most vicious men ever to call themselves Republicans.
Confusion is our problem -- a loss of purpose and clear direction. This leads one to cushion the present rather than sacrifice for the future. We are doomed because we are repeating history. The fruit of the Reformation rotted due to the climate of modernity. The fruit of the neo-reformation of Christian Reconstruction now rots in the climate of postmodernity. This is a frightening irony, and it is one we must oppose.
I simply cannot refer to such people as adults or even decent. The political bantering in this country is at the level of Haiti or Somalia, and I hold no respect for either party or its leadership. The Republicans appear as hypocritical monsters. They are grossly immoral, war-driven power brokers whose hypnotic control is finally loosening from the minds of conservatives. The Democrats are no better, and I anticipate a great many Christians will avoid the polls in lieu of returning in 2008.
There are no political solutions to our national dilemmas. Our reliance must be upon the Lord. The Christian community must return to Him with a repentance made manifest in explicit, determined obedience to His law and covenant. Christian Reconstructionists bear a specific responsibility to speak along these lines, yet a good many theonomic leader has left the fold for the "deeper waters" of triviality, obscure literature, theological revisionism, and hip-hop! They are preoccupied with memorizing the multiple brands of ale and photographing themselves smoking cigars. My goodness, need I remind you men of your calling?
Get back to your post! In the name of Him whose eyes are in every place I admonish you to fall out of love with the latest theologian and work to reposition Christianity back upon its solid foundation -- the foundation of law and covenant.
Enough with metanarratives. Enough with "emergence." Enough with postmodernity. Why do you allow the moorings of a contemporary culture to determine your daily focus? Oh, what an intoxicating spirit is the liquor of relevance! The application of your prophetic office is not relevance to a capricious culture, but rather representation of the righteous Lord. Seek to conform men to God's standards rather than conform yourself to man's cultural folly.
What has happened to the once burgeoning army of reconstructionist thinkers, ministers, writers, pastors, and diligent laymen? Where have they wandered? What great theology carries such a superior allurement than that of applied Van Tillianism? Are they simply war weary? Are their spirits exhausted? Is it the power of the mailing list? What is the great explanation for the great dispersion?
Rushdoony and Bahnsen are gone just a few years and already theonomic leaders are toying with Pharoah and his chariots; and I have no other explanation than that of confusion. As was the handicap of ancient Israel today's Christian is "veiled" from "seeing to the end of what was established" (cf. 2 Cor. 3:14,15). When you lose sight of the direction of eschatological purpose you become consumed with the present. Since Israel could not see the goal of Old Testament history due to the veiling of their hearts and minds they wandered aimlessly and sought only to conform to other nations, i.e., they lusted for cultural relevance.
This led to national confusion and eventual captivity. Their national confusion was typified in the captivity in Babylon (the land of Babel, or confusion). It is therefore not enough to speak only of our election out of the bondage of sin (or "Egypt"), we must now speak of our election out of the captivity of confusion (or "Babel").
Our theonomic leaders used to point a clear path to the advancement of the kingdom. They were thoroughly contra-statist and their theology was the sole helmsman steering the once great ship of Christian Reconstruction. Now, that theology has been replaced. The blurring of the eschatological goal has left them captive in neo-Babylon and they can only think of relevance while dancing close to the precipice of drunkenness. Drunkards epitomize man's loss of purpose and calling. This would explain the blog pages dedicated by reformed men to their favorite brew.
And worst of all, the illustrious allegiance once directed towards Rushdoony and Bahnsen are now granted to the disgusting fascists in the White House, Pentagon, and State Department. And while a few remaining reconstructionists drone endlessly about returning to the "faith of our national founding fathers" they utter not a single peep about the encroaching police state brought on by the false flag terror attacks of the most vicious men ever to call themselves Republicans.
Confusion is our problem -- a loss of purpose and clear direction. This leads one to cushion the present rather than sacrifice for the future. We are doomed because we are repeating history. The fruit of the Reformation rotted due to the climate of modernity. The fruit of the neo-reformation of Christian Reconstruction now rots in the climate of postmodernity. This is a frightening irony, and it is one we must oppose.
