You're Reading Romans 13 Wrong! Here's How to Read It Correctly
It is, once more, a measure of how far the Western church has drifted from those moorings that it has been possible for Christians in our own day to think of bringing “justice and peace” into the world by the normal, disastrous means of bombs and bullets.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
if the primary purpose of the verse is to keep people from submitting to human authority, then we might say that the whole relational dynamic of ‘God as Master and we as slaves’ is fundamentally a mechanism for preventing slavery. It is less about God’s desire to rule over people and more about how divine rulership undermines all earthly power stru
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Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
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If both logic and Scripture make it apparent that motivations of selfish fear and gain are a menace to holiness,35 why does the debate persist over whether a divine threat of retaliation or a promise of grace better stimulates holiness? The simple answer is that preachers feel the need for a corrective. We wonder how we can compel others, or even o
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