I love John Macarthur, but...

I was listening the other day to channel 159 on Sirius radio (now 161) and they were talking about whether or not Christians should be involved in changing society through politics. I agreed with the host's contention that just because Jesus didn't affect the world through politics doesn't mean that we shouldn't - Jesus didn't get married either...

The fellow also brought up the point that John MacArthur thinks we shouldn't be pollitically active, linking it to the idea that we are now living in a "post-christian" world [and therefore things are just going to get worse - so why bother trying [I assume is the jist [sp?] ] ]. I agree with the radio host that our society may be post Christian but it doesn't have to stay that way.

I think John MacArthur has a lot of excellent things to say to us from the bible that bring more of our heart closer to God, but the (I believe) faulty eschatology he (and many other excellent pastors) espouses makes Christians tend to want to dis-engage from the world instead of continuing to do spiritual battle as more-than conquerors who are living in the kingdom presently ruled by Christ. We've already won, but much of the present and recent Christian generations since John Nelson Darby started this wrong turn in history have in part forfeited their share in the growth of the Kingdom because of this fatalistic attitude.

I believe Christ is building his kingdom now, through the church, but also through the work of truth [that's Him] within the rest of society as well. If the North American church wants to disengage from the rest of the world because of a "seconds from disaster" attitude, I'll bet He'll be happy to use Christians who are ready to engage in other parts of the world.

The problem with "Left Behinders"

The problem with "Left Behinders" is that the emphasis is on hunkering down, getting spiritual and not being worldy in the sense of almost not participating in higher orders of society other than to make money and look for opportunities to evangelize on the sinking ship. Church is all and society is the mission-field that will eventually burn up - so why bother trying to effect long term change?
Post-millennialism [partial preterism] on the other hand encourages one to engage with the world, because it is Christ's world and we [being more than conquerors] have already won. We are to continue to pursue our main purpose in life - to glorify God in the midst of a dark but inevitably brightening world [and to evangelise the lost so they don't self-destruct just before things get better]. The Kingdom is all, and the Church is just the self-aware [ruling [if we get off our Chicken Little Duffs]] part of the kingdom