Every four years, I get nervous as election day approaches. Inevitably, well-meaning ministers publicly announce their endorsement of a presidential candidate and call on all "professing Christians" to elect (or re-elect) the nominee. Church leaders on both right and left confidently answer the same question ("What Would Jesus Do?") with different answers ("re-elect Bush!", "vote Kerry!"). Yet both camps are guilty of the same mistake - confusion over the "two cities," collapsing of the "two kingdoms," and a conflating of the eternal (gospel) with the temporal (state).
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Issue: "The Christian Voters Guide" Sept./Oct. Vol. 13 No. 5 2004 Pages 28-29
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