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We are a group of Christians dedicated to the gospel of Jesus Christ as set out by Jesus, the Apostles, the early church and then defended by Augustine, many medieval Christians, Luther, Calvin, Edwards and the Puritans, some of the Fundamentalists, and many modern Reformed and Evangelical people. The odd part? We are also convinced, both from political theory and from the Bible, that Anarchy is that which will bring a semblance of order to earthly society. We do not believe that the state works or that it is Biblical and, as such, we tout freedom from state. We have but one king and that is Christ.

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Pray for the King!

So far, most Christians are convinced that Christian Anarchists are in rebellion because they don’t support the king.  The thing that they neglect to realize is that I DO support the king.  I support the king stopping his murder of Muslims, babies, dissenters, and many more.  I support the king being reconciled to YHWH through the sacrifice of Jesus.  They say, “Don’t denounce the king, pray for the king!”  Allow me to point to the falseness of this dilemma and remind you that Paul was specifically telling Timothy to pray for the salvation of all peoples because YHWH wants all people to come to Himself through Jesus.  This commits a fallacy of what I call “Implied Exclusion.”  Praying for the king to be saved does not imply the exclusion of the prophetic work of denouncing corruption (or 3/4 of the Old Testament would be blank pages.)

So, allow me to politely note that I pray for the king constantly.  Here is a prayer I wrote that sums up what I usually say about the king:

‘Heavenly Father,

I thank you that you are the almighty sovereign King of the universe. I thank you that you control all events on earth. I thank you that you are holy and just and that, as a result, I can have confidence that all things that happen, happen for a good and loving purpose regardless of whatever pain and suffering result. In this specific prayer, I pray for the individuals of the Senate, House, and Presidency. I pray for all of those involved in the bloodied, corrupted, murderous State you have ordianed (without questioning your holiness, sovereignty, justice, goodness, or love with which I have such intimate acquaintance.) Father, I pray that they will be saved, reconciled to you by the blood of your Son Jesus Christ, the Messiah, and, in being saved, have their eyes opened to the mass murder that they commit and injustice that they perpetuate every day. I pray that they would see that coercive action via legislation or “representation” is against Christianity and amounts to little more than a desecration of the temple of God that are individual humans created in Your image. I do not pray that they would “do their jobs well” or “wisely” since praying to you that someone would commit murder “well” is an abomination. I pray that they would leave office, denounce coercion and idolatrous electoral politics, denounce murder through war, denounce applying coercive temporal solutions to the moral issues of other people, proclaim the wonders of YHWH, proclaim salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, and serve the One True King, King Jesus.

Amen’

Ryan Day Thompson 

January 26, 2012
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  1. mrpapaya reblogged this from flagless and added:
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We are a group of Christians dedicated to the gospel of Jesus Christ as set out by Jesus, the Apostles, the early church and then defended by Augustine, many medieval Christians, Luther, Calvin, Edwards and the Puritans, some of the Fundamentalists, and many modern Reformed and Evangelical people. The odd part? We are also convinced, both from political theory and from the Bible, that Anarchy is that which will bring a semblance of order to earthly society. We do not believe that the state works or that it is Biblical and, as such, we tout freedom from state. We have but one king and that is Christ.

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