Dale Partridge - November 14, 2022


Is Separation of Church & State Biblical？


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1 minute

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Word count

285

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14

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2

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As politics has become more about morality than policy, Christians are finally seeing that Christ cannot be confined merely to the church. In other words, Christianity is a totalizing faith. God's command for holiness and morality must go beyond the church and permeate into every area of our lives, especially our politics.

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00:00:00.000 As politics have become more about morality than policy, Christians are finally seeing that Christ
00:00:06.480 cannot be confined merely to the church. In other words, Christians are finally realizing that
00:00:10.800 Christianity is a totalizing faith. Namely, God's command for holiness and morality must go beyond 0.99
00:00:16.220 the church and permeate into every area of our lives, especially our politics. After all, Jesus
00:00:21.280 said all authority has been given to him in heaven and on earth. However, as soon as Christians start 1.00
00:00:26.640 to bring their Christianity into the public square, someone screams about the distinction
00:00:30.420 of separation of church and state. First, this is just a foolish statement because they don't 0.97
00:00:34.960 understand the historical intention of America's founding fathers for separating the church from 0.94
00:00:39.420 the state. Our founders were not trying to separate God from the state or righteousness
00:00:43.300 from the state or morality from the state. They were coming off the heels of a government in
00:00:47.280 Europe that punished people for not worshiping according to the state. Our founders wanted clear
00:00:52.660 lines between church authority and state authority, but they were by no means attempting to remove
00:00:57.380 the influence of the church on the state. In fact, if you read George Washington's inauguration
00:01:03.460 of what we now call Thanksgiving in 1789, it sounds like the apostle Paul wrote it.
00:01:08.580 Ultimately, the state is intended to protect its people and secure civil freedom. The church is
00:01:13.140 intended to worship God and evangelize the culture, but both institutions are to honor and glorify God.
00:01:18.820 So Christian, don't fall prey to the lie that God's moral law has no authority to govern the state.
00:01:23.320 It does, and you must continue to push back against anyone who says otherwise.