Well Peter, all I can say is that when I became too serious for too long about anything I eventually dropped it. If we can't have fun and enjoy theology, eschatology, theonomy, or collecting baseball cards and these suddenly become just "serious" to us then we've lost something, for sure.

I find the greatest enjoyment of the Christian worldview in it's vast coherence. My joy is in searching out apparent conflict and contradiction and chasing it like it's a zany grouse running from my shotgun (sorry, hunting season is open, just another coherent add-on).

So in that little matter of earths governance 'neath the claim of the Sovereign One enthroned, I suppose I still get a little giddy, jutting His words into this time and this space, too. Therein lay the fun; it fits. Like a puzzle. One more piece.

I try to show readers that to think Christianly on matters concerning government there is indeed a Christian way of thinking, and that thinking goes by a certain name. And if that name is all tangled up in somebody's seriousness because they were vexed by it for too long, then maybe it's time for a new name because how it matters and how it's true hasn't changed one bit, despite experiences.

For the record, I know several people for whom the chestnut is brand new.

So I encourage you to keep looking into the matter, but don't forget to have fun ;-) Maybe in not taking it seriously anymore, it'll matter to you again?

Barry

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