It has become a truism that Christians in the West are presently enduring what may seem like a wave of confusion concerning political life. A well-developed understanding of the divinely intended spheres of the church and state concerning the public curtails this confusion. What is needed is a work of retrieval within the local church. We must rediscover God’s intent for civil government and the divinely intended scope and boundaries of the magistrate’s powers. The good news is that this project of retrieval seems well at hand. Several helpful resources have recently emerged distinguishing between our modern secular view of government and the biblical alternative.
We need a confessionally rooted political theology leading to a confessionally established vision of civil government. What our present cultural and political confusion requires, especially where confessional Baptists are concerned, is that local churches return to the Baptist confessions for answers.
Under God, Over the People by Oliver Allmand-Smith is just the sort of retrieval that local churches need. Oliver turns to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith to consider what Scripture teaches us regarding the purpose and function of civil magistrates. Under God, Over the People reminds us that God institutes civil government for His glory and our good. They are ordained and deputised by God for the good of the public.
Under God, Over the People serves us well in showing how to relate to civil laws in a way that honours Christ, particularly in such morally confusing times. This book is a necessary and vital work as we labour to recover God’s design for civil government.
108 pages.
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