Christ does not need a secular State to sustain his Church

Christianity grew rapidly in the teeth of bouts of vicious state persecution in its first three centuries before Constantine established it as the official religion of the Roman Empire. It is now growing in many countries around the world, where it is not privileged by the State or even enjoys much toleration, including some Muslim ones.

The Lord Jesus Christ does not need the active support of secular governments or secular cultures to build His Church. Clearly though, if Britain did fall to political Islam in, say, the middle of this century, then that would create serious difficulties for public Christianity in what was this country.

Authentic Christian martyrdom, the sort that intends no harm to anybody else, could be what the living God is calling Christ’s followers to on this island under such dire political circumstances. Certainly, Christian history provides plenty of examples of the enduring public witness of Christians who have been faithful unto death.

But if the sovereign Lord God Almighty does choose to revive by His Word and Spirit the declining local churches of this country in the coming decades and to create many more new, thriving, Bible-teaching congregations, then that could help buttress parts of the British Isles against political Islam. Provided these non-Islamist regions had the wherewithal to defend themselves with a morally robust and disciplined military, they could be spaces where Christianity could grow under some kind of rule of law.

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