Having a faithful spouse, children, and church are three pillars without which we cannot flourish. A wicked government can hinder all three of these, or destroy them. But in truth, we have destroyed these from the inside out. Our sin, our apathy, our ignorance and false teaching telling us these things are "idols" or "unimportant" or that all we need is me, myself, and my Bible at home are lies straight from the pit of hell. You cannot be fruitful and multiply, you cannot rule and subdue, and you cannot be part of Christ's kingdom without a spouse, children, and a church. All three of these need to be rooted in reality and God's Word, otherwise they will be like a house without a firm foundation, which is dangerous and self-destructive. Christ says to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and He will take care of our daily needs of food, shelter, and clothing. So what does it look like to seek first God's kingdom and righteousness? For m
Junius Max-ing here, from his preface in the Mosaic Polity. He does a great job detailing the place for magistrates and ministers, each in their own callings, to address the general nature of the moral law: "For my part, I am not ignorant of those boundaries that God has placed around my office as a theologian, or of the examples that the orthodox fathers supplied to the church of God, or of the authority that God has granted in this matter to prudent jurists and just magistrates, and I am thus free from audacious and gladiatorial feelings. Yet on this question, in my opinion, anyone who would judge with a just balance its nature, mode, and goal would judge that even some parts of this task are ours. As a matter of fact, the nature of this question has both a common part and a particular part. Its mode is such that a theologian describes part of its rules, and the magistrate applies his authority and force to his part of the rules. Finally, the theologian sets forth the goal for