Given the recent scandals involving Pastors and Christian Leaders who have become entangled in national and international politics, we are once again reminded that it is high time the church recovered the doctrine of the 'spirituality of the church' and remembered that her duty is to spread the Gospel and not to stump for political parties or causes.
Jesus told us that his kingdom is 'not of this world' and in this reading from two articles by Southern Presbyterian Theologian R.L. Dabney from 1855 and 1894*, we have explained to us why it is critical to the mission of the church that Pastors maintain the separation of the church from the kingdoms of the world and not allow their ministries to degenerate into a soap-box for the passing political issues of their day.
As R.B. Kuiper put it very well:
'Just because the preaching of the Word is so great a task the church must devote itself to it alone. For the church to undertake other activities, not indissolubly bound up with this one, is a colossal blunder, because it inevitably results in neglect of its proper task.'
*["Political Preachers", The Texas Presbyterian (May 4,1894) & "The Gospel Idea of Preaching", The Presbyteria Critic, (July 1855)]
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“ Great Sermon! ” Is there an online source for the two theological journals/magazines that the articles are from? (The Texas Presbyterian - May 4,1894 & The Presbyteria Critic - July 1855)
Robert Lewis Dabney, who lived from 1820-1898, was one of finest of the southern Presbyterian theologians. He is perhaps best known today for his service as one of Stonewall Jackson's chaplains during the American Civil War, but of far greater importance than that were his...
