In God We Don’t Trust

Strength to Strength welcomed Matthew Milioni to discuss the relationship that God wants his people to have with the kingdoms of the world.

How is a Christian to relate to a national holiday such as Independence Day and the celebration of the American Revolution? What is our role as Christians who belong to the Kingdom of Heaven?

Join us for a very important conversation around the Christian and the empire.

True Christians never use their ‘liberty’ to rule over the godly or the godless. They use no kind of force, but rather allow themselves to be ruled over. They suffer force and violence with patience and love until the end of the world.

Pilgram Marpeck, an early Anabaptist leader

There is nothing more foreign to a Christian than public affairs.

Tertullian, an early church father

Thanks to Kevin Brechbill who helped to develop this presentation, but was unexpectedly unable to participate.

Recommended resources:

Book by David Bercot: In God We Don’t Trust

YouTube video by David Bercot: What the Early Christians Believed about the Two Kingdoms

YouTube video interviewing David Bercot: The American Revolution and the Kingdom of God

YouTube video interviewing Dean Taylor: Nationalism and the Kingdom of God

YouTube video interviewing Kevin Brechbill: Kingdom Responsibility and Politics

Article by Dru Lattin: The Stars and Stripes and the Tension Between

Debates:

YouTube video debate: “It’s Just War” – Should Christians Fight?

YouTube video debate: Debate on Christianity and Voting

Matthew Milioni and his wife Erica came from a life on the streets of Oregon in the 90’s into the Christian faith. Matthew’s testimony is that it was the radical and uncompromising Jesus of the gospels that brought him into the Kingdom of God.

Matthew and Erica have 12 children. Matthew has been a bi-vocational church planter and elder in the Christian community movement. He runs a small family business and has worked with Followers of the Way to establish Christian communities in Africa, Canada, and the United States. The sub-culture of Christianity and peacemaking are two special interests that Matthew often speaks to.