NEW RELEASE!

The Way, the Truth, and the Sword

A New Christian Civics in an Age of Coercive Power

By Scott Ritsema

 

GET YOUR COPY FOR ONLY

$15.95

OR

Buy an e-book version of The Way, the Truth and the Sword here for $9.95.

There is currently an awakening within the Christian church.  Christians are recognizing the unholy alliance that the church has made with government power.  In picking up the sword, we have betrayed the Cross and have abandoned the clear teachings of Jesus.  We have accepted Satan’s offer to rule the kingdoms of this world, and in the process, we have distorted the intention of the Kingdom of God.

 

Yet many who are questioning evangelical politics-as-usual are lost and misguided.  Our grasp of the Christian worldview is shallow, and our ability to carry that worldview into the civic realm is confused at best.  

 

What exactly should the Christian’s role in the civic realm be?  Should we abandon the religious right in favor of a moralistic left-wing crusade against poverty and global warming?  Should we disengage altogether from civics and politics for the sake of the purity of the Kingdom of God?

 

In The Way, the Truth, and the Sword, Scott Ritsema offers readers an alternative to the status quo.  His critique and his proposition of a new Christian civics is historically grounded, non-partisan, patriotic, peaceable, and most importantly…faithful to Jesus’ teachings and biblical doctrine.  But it requires Christians to re-think the assumptions about the purpose and nature of government that have slipped into modern evangelicalism.