The Wall Street Journal reports that Bejing Zion Church Pastor Jin Mingin is challenging Christians in China.
Pastor Mingin stated in a recent sermon to the 800 member Protestant church, ""Let your descendants become great politicians like Joseph and Daniel. . . Let them influence the future course of this country,"
Jim Lincoln wrote: I wasn't really expecting from the title of the article to what I read in the body of the article. No, Christians are not called to be politicians. This is not the goal of the church. One of the few instances that Christians are allowed to defy government, by Christ is in his case: Matthew 28 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."---NASB Messing around in politics is not the proper way of Rendering To Caesar: A Biblical Perspective On Government Now if this pastor that Joseph and Daniel waited to be called into governmental service, by government officials, that could be a different matter.
Jim, excellent comment and I couldn't agree more. Yes, politics is the art of compromise and pragmatism and Christianity is not!
I wasn't really expecting from the title of the article to what I read in the body of the article.
No, Christians are not called to be politicians. This is not the goal of the church. One of the few instances that Christians are allowed to defy government, by Christ is in his case:
Matthew 28 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."---NASB
Larry Pan | 7/4/2009
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