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Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

By pgepps ⋅ May 10, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

There’s been some mention, hereabouts, of the Evangelical Manifesto. May I suggest we consider first A Christian Manifesto?

If there is no place for disobeying a human government, that government has been made GOD.

Caesar, under some name, thinking of the early Church, has been put upon the final throne. The Bible’s answer is NO! Caesar is not to be put in the place of God and we as Christians, in the name of the Lordship of Christ, and all of life, must so think and act on the appropriate level. It should always be on the appropriate level. We have lots of room to move yet with our court cases, with the people we elect — all the things that we can do in this country. If, unhappily, we come to that place, the appropriate level must also include a disobedience to the state.

If you are not doing that, you haven’t thought it through. Jesus is not really on the throne. God is not central. You have made a false god central. Christ must be the final Lord and not society and not Caesar.

May I repeat the final sentence again? CHRIST MUST BE THE FINAL LORD AND NOT CAESAR AND NOT SOCIETY.