Evangelical Disobedience and the Courts

https://www.christianpost.com/news/usps-can-require-christian-to-work-on-sundays-court-rules.html

This is a case of worldly thinking being passed off as Christianity applied. It's more rights-based ethics – file a lawsuit and call on the state to compel your employer to give you what you want. It's an abnegation of gospel testimony, an attempt to wed Christianity to the power of the state. And this thinking is the result of Dominionism, the utter confusion of the True Kingdom that calls us to take up the cross with a counterfeit kingdom that seeks to sanctify the world and its hallmarks – the sword and the coin. Bow to its ethic and its fallen prince will grant you the kingdoms of the earth. This is how far removed from the New Testament this doctrinal and ethical system is.

This over-realised eschatology leads to a kind of antinomianism even though its advocates are so very keen to apply Old Testament Law to modern non-covenantal states.

Unlike the Christianity of the New Testament, Dominionism (as exhibited by the rights-seeking plaintiff) won't embrace the cross, and certainly will not follow the exhortations of Christ or the apostles and their call to allow for the spoiling of goods etc. That's no road to power or even security and respectability – the foundations of middle class life and values, and most important of all, influence.

Instead of turning the other cheek and rejoicing to suffer for the Name, instead the Evangelical calls on its bestial ally the state to give it satisfaction, to strike at its enemies and consume them. The postal lawsuit functionally declares everyone has to do everything the way I want it done, because it's my job, and my rights, and my pension – regardless of how that money is in fact generated, and so these concerns cancel out Scriptural commands. I get to seek vengeance and I will have it.

The New Testament response to this is pretty simply. Humbly refuse to work Sunday, let them fire you, praise God, and tell everyone. Tell the church, tell the press if you want to. It's appropriate to shame the world even though many of them don't understand the concept. What's troubling to me is that large numbers of Evangelicals don't seem to either.

And then, find a new job and press on as all pilgrims do. Did you lose money? Praise God. You've suffered for his name. It's on them.

The problem here isn't really the state or the US Postal Service – why did you want to work for them anyway? What did you expect?

The problem here is that we have a Christian being disobedient to the New Testament and instead of being rebuked he's being celebrated and lionised by the heretics and worldlings at The Christian Post and within the context of the larger apostasy known as American Evangelicalism.