Second American Revolution: Phil Vollman (5 of 5)

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Question:-- What can Christians begin to do from a practical standpoint to begin to rebuild our nation according to the standard of the Law of God? What would a Christian America look like?

Phil Vollman: We were a church of about 25 families when we decided to make the switch. I stood in my pulpit on a Sunday morning and said, "We are going to become a Christian Reconstructionist church. We are going to embrace the Reformed faith with all the vigor that God gives us." I said to my people, "You followed me when I had no theology. Follow me know as we learn this together." We were your typical evangelical, born-again, Spirit-filled, activist church. Our theology was about a mile wide and an inch deep. We were sincere and that's why God kept us together all those many years and blessed our efforts. But we had reached the point where He was demanding maturity. We had reached the point where we realized that there is no such thing as neutrality. We were finally aware of the fact that you can't beat something with nothing.

In our long odyssey to become epistemologically self-conscious, that Sunday was the jumping off point. We set about to systematically teach the Reformed faith, starting with a virile Calvinism, followed up by an optimistic and victorious postmillennial eschatology. Then I taught for 18 months on the Ten Commandments. We became covenantal in our worldview and then we became Knoxian in our social theory. In other words, we liked the idea that there was greatness in the Great Commission. We liked the idea that the death burial and resurrection of Jesus was enough to accomplish His plan in time and history. We liked the idea that when He said on the cross, "It is finished," that's exactly what He meant. We liked the idea that the Lord's prayer says, "Thy kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." We were smart enough to know that in heaven the battle is won. We realized that in heaven there are no wicked, there is no sin, there is no fight up there. The fight is here in time and history where Christians have been called to the kingdom.

Putting all these things together all this new theology started to take form and shape, not only in our hearts where it must begin, but also in our day to day living. And so after five years, we realized we had the wedding of charismatic zeal, but tied to Christian orthodoxy. We believe that finally we have the tool of dominion. When the day comes when the zeal of the charismatic movement which indeed is blessed of God is finally wedded to sound Christian orthodoxy, we are going to see something in the earth, that is going to cause people to look and listen.

I believe we are on the beginning edges of that. My own background speaks of that. No one could ever take us to task for a lack of zeal. But zeal without knowledge is very dangerous. The beginning works are already done. The Christian Reconstructionist authors for the past 25 years -- Chilton, Rushdoony, North, Gentry, Bahnsen -- have written the works. It's up to the pastors now to start reading those materials and breaking it down as God has gifted us with an ability to do. What pour job has to be is to take those fat books and break them down into something that our people can understand. As we do that and combine that with day by day street activity and acts of mercy, God is going to bless local churches like we have never seen before. It's just called the Great Commission.

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[sugarpuddin88]

Religion & Scientology are tax-exempt; & like the fairy tales Mother Goose & Jack and the Bean stalk: Written to help the frightened little monkey's sleep at night

The belief in one fairy tale over another is completely arbitrary - And depends on which frightening story you heard as a child

In reality, people are simply afraid of the responsibility associated with having an "internal locus of control" - Thus, they invent saviors to hide behind when it gets dark out at night

[jcr4runner]

I am trying to decide whether you are against tax exemptions and would agree with us to abolish the income tax in favor of a fair tax.

Or are you simply a God hater hurling invective?

If you disagree why not respond to one of the points Phil makes?

[shaver215]

epistemologically self-conscious!!!!