To Whom Are We Loyal?

Nick Eicher interviews Os Guinness on power and politics. 

Is another shock coming? 

     "I think we're in the middle of a profound crisis. You see this in Friedrich Nietzsche. His last words were, '...it's the will to power - and nothing besides.' 

     "Worldwide today you see the shift to authoritarianism and totalitarianism. We just saw Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un getting together. But the same crisis is in the West itself. 

On the left or on the right?

     "The obvious part is the left, power in the state and cultural Marxism. But Christians need to be aware of examples on the right in America too. Take the administration saying, 'We want to make America great again.' They never say what made it great in the first place. They're trying to reassert American strength through power. That's dangerous.

How should we reassert American strength?

     "We need to go back, as followers of Jesus, to the Biblical, Jewish-Christian understanding. The Bible has a different view of power. The supreme example is the cross. Christians turned that inside out, made it a matter of glory. God's way of dealing with the world is not from power. We are faithful to our Lord and not captured by the spirit of the age.

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