“Too many modern evangelicals re-interpret Matthew 28:19 to mean “make disciples from all nations.” But grammar matters and nations is the direct object of the verb to disciple. Of course, we cannot disciple a nation without making disciples from that nation. But to settle for individual converts without teaching those same people to obey everything God commanded, including obedience at the corporate level as it pertains to all things social, cultural, and political, is to stop short. Our marching orders are to make the nations of the world Christian, including our own, which one could conceivably call Christian Nationalism. “
The above-linked article is really quite well done. If I hadn’t known I didn’t write it, I could’ve sworn that I wrote it myself. I don’t know Rev. Burns, though unfortunately, I know he is a Baptist. If only more Reformed people would write articles like the Baptist Burns wrote in the link above maybe we would have enough Calvinists to fill a phone booth.It is definitely the case that Evangelicals today hate the whole idea of Christian nationalism … or at the very least they hate the idea of White Christian Nationalism. Names like Tim Keller, Jonathan Leeman, Russel Moore, Mark Labberton, Kevin DeYoung, etc. are all on record as being appalled at the notion of White Christian Nationalism. For many in the Leadership of the Evangelical Church today I think it is safe to say that they would have no problem with Christian Nationalism as long as white people were not Christian Nationalists. In so many cases the very people who break into a cold sweat while contemplating Christian Nationalism break into that cold sweat because being WOKE any organizing of White people to pursue their interest makes them nauseous. We know this is true because in so many cases these very same people are full-throated supporters of Israeli Nationalism or South African Nationalism as led by the African National Congress are the people who are adamantly opposed to White Christian Nationalism.Alternately, the explanation for why so many in the Leadership of the Evangelical-“Reformed” movements are so adamantly opposed to Christian Nationalism as existing among White people is because they hate the notion of Christ ruling. Face it, at the end of the day all Christian Nationalism is, is the idea that Christ’s sovereignty over the nations — nation by nation — is a reality to which all nations (including White nations) should submit. This attitude of hating the idea (whether admitted or not) that Christ should rule all the nations (See Psalm 2) in my estimation is an example of how bad theology (in this case eschatology) hurts people. It is, at least in part, because people embrace premillennialism and amillennialism (R2K) that they so adamantly are opposed to Christian Nationalism. Premillennialism and Amillennialism, unlike Postmillennialism, do not believe that Christ will be victorious over the nations in space and time and so in a piece of self-fulfilled prophecy on their part they are opposed to what they believe should not and can not happen. Their eschatology tells them that all will end in blood, smoke, and ruin, and the idea that Christ should and shall rule the nations with a rod of iron overturns all their cherished eschatology.
Unfortunately, it is simply the case that most popular eschatologies find it to be a nightmare scenario that finds Christ being triumphant over the nations and in that triumph ruling them. Then when that prospect is combined with the idea that White nations might one day once again be ruled by a vibrant and vigorous Christianity … well, it is enough to make a WOKE person despair.
