17th century Particular Baptist divines addressing modern souls…
Wolfe's post highlights a key distinction between church establishment and civil duty. By focusing on honoring God, he challenges common misconceptions about Christian nationalism and its implications for civil governance.
In discussions of justification, understanding the term 'repent and believe' is crucial. Often misinterpreted, it can mean a complete moral transformation before God's acceptance. The Reformed tradition emphasizes repentance as a response to God's mercy, not a precondition for justification.
Theology Proper explores the doctrine of God, highlighting His trinitarian nature and the distinction between His shared attributes and incommunicable ones. This understanding emphasizes the unique and infinite character of God, which surpasses human comprehension.
Beware the trap of reactionary traditionalism, where cultural nostalgia overshadows biblical wisdom. True reformational fidelity demands a fuller vision that honors God's design and resists both feminism's subversions and patriarchy's distortions.
Romans 13 does not describe the pathway to a Christian empire. It describes the posture of a pilgrim people—those whose citizenship is in heaven, who live peaceably on earth, and who trust God’s providence even when Caesar is no friend to Christ. And that reality does not merely challenge Christian Nationalism. It exposes it as a theology built on anachronism, impatience, and a refusal to live as exiles.
Our relationship to “Israel” is not finally a matter of bloodline, borders, or political theory, but covenant mercy in Christ—one olive tree, one root, one people, and one way of standing: faith. The pastoral weight of Romans 11 is this: cling to Christ, walk humbly, rejoice in mercy, and refuse every form of boasting—whether ancient or modern—that would eclipse the grace of God.
In every age, the Church faces the temptation to look down instead of up, to stake its claim in what is fading rather than what is coming. Today, this danger comes clothed in new language — modern theological trends that baptize political ideologies, or political movements that promise cultural revival dressed in spiritual terms. But the result is the same: our hearts are slowly drawn away from heaven, away from Christ, and toward this world.
This article is part of an ongoing series of confessional exposition through the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, seeking to recover its theology for the instruction and stability of the modern church.
“…the Spirit of God lays before us not only what is morally foul, but what is deeply personal to Him—those sins that He hates…”
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