True Christian Nationalism: What it May Look Like – Pastor Patrick Hines Reformed Christian Podcast.

I wanted to do this podcast as a follow up to the previous one about ecumenical “Christian” nationalism being a fool’s errand. What if true Christians did live to see widespread revival and biblical reformation? How would that manifest itself in society? How would that influence family-life, economics, public morality, church, and policy? Everything goes back to the way we define the word “Christian” in the phrase “Christian Nationalism.” The broad-brush perspective that seems to dominate discourse today includes under the term, “Christian,” groups that neither believe nor promote Christianity – groups like Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. Without the biblical gospel, you do not have Christianity at all. That is not being a “rock-ribbed” Protestant or a narrow-minded bigot. That is simply following the apostolic position breathed forth by God in Holy Scripture. Both the theologians of Rome in the 16th century and the Protestant Reformers of that same century understood this: One of us is preaching a different gospel and is therefore under the anathema of God. They understood what apparently most people today do not understand. One of us is fatally wrong on the most important doctrine of the Christian faith – how we answer the question: How can I, a sinner, be right before the Holy God. Until we agree on how to answer that question, there is no “Christianity” to unite around.