I am sure that is alarming to some of my less “awake” fellow American Christians who are convinced that the job of the government is to regulate the church. Some of the responses that I have read on Facebook regarding his arrest are striking evidence of the failure of America’s pulpits.
Somewhere along the line pastors have convinced their goats that “obeying the government” is the “duty” of good “law-abiding” Americans. They love to cite Romans 13 as a reason for their flocks kowtowing to wickedness. The same guy, the Apostle Paul, who wrote Romans 13 also instructed his followers to “have nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather, expose them.” Expose what? Unfruitful works of darkness.
Darkness connotes evil and evil is recognized by what it destroys. Jesus warned us that “you shall know them by their fruit.” In other words, only good works can produce fruit. Dark works destroy. They are unfruitful. We are called to examine the fruit and have nothing to do with anything that does not produce good fruit.
But what determines what is good and what is bad? What is the standard by which such judgments should be made? I hear tell “the road to hell is p ...
