Please
consider this quote from Lesslie Newbigin, long-time missionary to India:
“Of
course, as contemporary history proves, Christians can live and bear witness
under any regime, whatever its ideology. But Christians can never seek refuge
in a ghetto where their faith is not proclaimed as public truth for all. They
can never agree that there is one law for themselves and another for the world.
They can never admit that there are areas of human life where the writ of
Christ does not run. They can never accept that there are orders of creation of
powers or dominions that exist otherwise than to serve Christ. Whatever the
institutional relationship between the church and the state—and there are many
possible relationships, no one of which is necessarily the right one for all
times and places—the church can never cease to remind governments that they are
under the rule of Christ and that he alone is the judge of all they do. The
church can never accept the thesis that the central shrine of public life is
empty, in other words, that there has been no public revelation before the eyes
of all the world of the purpose for which all things and all people have been
created and which all governments must serve. It can never accept an ultimate
pluralism as a creed even if it must—as of course it must—acknowledge plurality
as a fact.”
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