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Redstate
A Corrupted Two
Kingdoms For Coward Pastors
By: Erick Erickson
April 20th, 2015
When the Protestant Reformation occurred, (I’m simplifying here) Luther
needed an explanation for why the Pope need not wield the power of the
sword. He focused on the idea of the two kingdoms — there is God’s
kingdom in Heaven over which here on the earth the church presides and
there is God’s kingdom on earth over which civil authorities preside.
Calvin picked up the two kingdoms and ran with it, though it should be
noted that in all cases the reformers were dealing with societies that
were within Christendom.
Over time, however, the two kingdoms doctrine has become corrupted and
many protestant pastors now hide cowardly behind a bastardized version
of the two kingdoms doctrine. This corrupted form insists that pastors
should make no commentary about civil society. In other words, pastors
should not be political and should steer clear of anything bordering
politics.
I think we can agree that pastors should not be political in the
pulpit. But this view has allowed pastors to become cowards. If any
subject, no matter how much it encroaches on the church, should be a
subject within politics, too many pastors will steer clear of it — even
if those issues are, at their core, cultural and not political.
In preparing a sermon, most pastors attempt to end the sermon with life
application for the lesson learned. The sermon should, in some way,
affect your life. But too often pastors think life should not affect
the sermon...
Read the rest of the article at Redstate
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