Ep. 18: Politics and the Church's Mission: What Should the Church Teach About Civil Government?

We discuss the teaching mission of the institutional church, its relation to the church’s statements of faith, and what the institutional church must and may not teach about politics on several important points. We talk about the Reformed confessional view of submission to civil governance, the recent failure of some churches in the face of unlawful state dictates, the error of theonomic views, and how a biblically Reformed covenantal hermeneutic informs a correct view of general equity.

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Main Points of Discussion

00:00  Introduction

00:32  Episode description

01:00  Why are we discussing this?

02:15  What is the church’s teaching mission?

05:07  One way the Reformed confessions are part of the church’s mission

07:34  False teaching about submission to God-ordained civil governance

13:43  Not a matter of political theory

14:53  False teaching of original and so-called “general equity theonomy”

19:28  Proper meaning of general equity