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Originally Posted by Ohio
Not buying this. All jobs require a pledge of allegiance. The LC was great at condemning brothers for thei commitment to their employer. TC would regularly go on rants about how every company was "bankrupt to be." But then he would challenge us to be successful like the gentiles, by extolling the successful ones.
Many Christians support and pray for the nation of Israel. And that is wrong too? Sounds to me too heavenly minded and no earthly good. We already have enough people bad-mouthing our country as evil, then for you to expect this from Christians too.
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You are completely missing my point. I am not saying that we should not pledge allegiance to our country. I did not call our country evil. I merely stated (indirectly) that it is part of the kingdom of the world within which we are left to dwell. But as citizens of another kingdom (God's kingdom), there is a time and place to set aside our connection with anything of this world and worship the King of kings. And he doesn't like sharing focus with the kingdoms of this world.
I am saying that once we are within the corporate act of worship, all those other attachments should be left outside. We render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But nothing within our time of worship is (or should be) Caesar's.
I in no way said anything against America, or Israel, or your job (or mine). I said that once we come together to worship God corporately, we should leave all those things outside. Nothing more.
Leave the flag outside. Pledge to it elsewhere. Sing to it elsewhere. Just not within the worship of God.