Whatever happened to the fearless priesthood?

Jul 28, 2018 by

By Joe Boot, Christian Concern.

[…] The real question for believers observing disturbing decisions and events like these is, where has the courage of the royal priesthood gone to stand for truth, justice and freedom in the name of Christ? Where is the service of a kingly order in the reconciliation of all things to God? To those who don’t believe that scriptural faith has anything authoritative to say to the culture because the Bible is supposedly only for the church institute and Christian faith for the private sphere of the ‘heart,’ not for the public space, little can be said. Though some moan about these sad and dangerous outcomes, such professing believers can have no legitimate complaint at all. Their expectation of marginalisation and persecution is simply a self-fulfilling prophesy, because if you surrender the world and culture to the spirit of darkness uncontested – in direct violation of the Great Commission – you can only expect that the enemies of the Christ and His gospel will run the whole field of culture and try to run Christians out of all areas of public and cultural life, or in some cases (as we see the parts of the Islamic and communist world) seek to destroy them altogether.

It is a false piety which simply throws up its hands and uses such instances as further evidence of why we are weary pilgrims passing through a veil of tears on route to another world and, therefore, another reason we should not try to apply God’s Word to the world at large. This attitude is an insufferable capitulation to pagan dreams of world abandonment, with no connection to scriptural faith. Believers who do not grasp their calling to be priests cannot be reasoned with in these situations, for many are seeking escape from the world, not its healing, renewal, and total reconciliation to God.

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