Making What Alive?

There is a lot of bickering back and forth about John Piper's blog post here:

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1986_i_hope_my_daughter_hears_the_presidents_speech/

That bickering is largely unproductive. Reading it is also largely unproductive, so I am guilty there. Yet more evidence that we waste so much energy on things that just don't matter. But in the chaos I found a nugget I want to reiterate from a response by a guy named Matthew Brazell:

The primary source of outrage among Christians is they think he will promote Socialism in his speech. People need to understand social change is not going to come in the world from politics, whether conservative or liberal. Regeneration and sanctification produces righteousness not legislation. We Christians seem to think the more conservative legislation that we have, and the more we support Israel the more righteous the nation will be, therefore God will bless the nation. Let me tell you something, we can have as many conservative laws in the world, but if the people are wicked, God will not favor those people and will not favor that country. God cares about a lot less about capitalism, "*your* money, *your* guns and *your* freedom", your prosperity, your American identity, your American exceptionalism, then you think. God is much more in the business of making dead people alive then making dead systems such as politics alive.

Amen.

Grace and Peace