Dick Keyes, The Lordship of Christ.\u00a0 It made me think of a comment about Paul\u2019s preaching concept \u2013 \u2018you preach the Bible without all the crap.\u2019\u00a0 This is the spiritual\/secular dualism that Keyes rejects. He says the true tension is not between the spiritual and the secular but rather within each realm of life, like politics, economics or music, is Jesus Christ lord and is he being honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started to wonder about what is wrong with equating Republican party to Christianity. The answer is not that this is an invalid melding of spiritual and secular, where you might say do not mix politics and religion. Rather, it is, as I see it, a mistake in how you apply your Christian faith to the public realm. So you would reply not, \u2018don\u2019t bring in politics,\u2019 but rather, \u201cI disagree with the way you are bringing your faith into politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018They have shrunk the size of world about which God is concerned.\u2019 \u2013 Keyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dick Keyes, The Lordship of Christ.\u00a0 It made me think of a comment about Paul\u2019s preaching concept \u2013 \u2018you preach the Bible without all the crap.\u2019\u00a0 This is the spiritual\/secular dualism that Keyes rejects. He<\/p>\n