Politics and the Church’s Mission: What Should the Church Teach About Civil Government?

Summary – Politics And The Church’s Mission: What should the church teach about civil government?

We discuss the teaching mission of the institutional church, its relation to the church’s statements of faith, and what the institutional church must and may not teach about politics on several important points. We talk about the Reformed confessional view of submission to civil governance, the recent failure of some churches in the face of unlawful state dictates, the error of theonomic views, and how a biblically Reformed covenantal hermeneutic informs a correct view of general equity. [Direct mp3 download]

https://reformedlibertarians.com/018

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Main Points of Discussion

00:00 Introduction
00:32 Episode description
01:00 Why are we discussing this?
02:15 What is the church’s teaching mission?
05:07 One way the Reformed confessions are part of the church’s mission
07:34 False teaching about submission to God-ordained civil governance
13:43 Not a matter of political theory
14:53 False teaching of original and so-called “general equity theonomy”
19:28 Proper meaning of general equity
24:30 The Reformed biblical covenantal hermeneutic
30:39 Recap
32:53 Disestablishmentarianism and Biblical criterion of proportional retribution

 

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