By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew
“This idea that Christians should be interested in something they call ‘the Gospel’ – and not politics – shows a highly truncated concept of what the word ‘Gospel’ means. A gospel or ‘good news’, is the announcement of a new emperor. In the pagan context in which the New Testament was written, it would have referred to the announcement that a new Caesar had ascended to power…’Culture is one of the things either clean or defiled which comes out of the heart. The Fruit of the Spirit, the Beatitudes, the Decalogue [The Ten Commandments], all of that is about cultural transformation.’ As Tom Wright, who knows a thing or two about Greek grammar, keeps saying: ‘If Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.’”
-Jerry Bower, president of Bower Research, published in the Christian Post
