I'm not a Christian Nationalist because… ✅ I think women should vote. When the Spirit fell at Pentecost, God said "your sons and your daughters shall prophesy" (Acts 2:17). If He trusts my sisters in Christ with His Word, I can trust them with a ballot. ✅ I think freedom of religion and freedom of speech (both built with Christian lumber btw) are good things until Jesus returns. The gospel has never needed a sword to fill a pew. Faith that is coerced is not faith at all, and a church that asks Caesar to do the Spirit's work has already forgotten how it was born. ✅ I think Postmillennialism is the Netflix ending to Scripture. The real ending doesn't arrive by ballot or by bill. It comes by trumpet, with a holy city "coming down from God out of heaven" (Revelation 21:2), not one we build up from Washington. ✅ I think Jesus already turned this offer down. Satan showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and He answered, "Get thee hence, Satan" (Matthew 4:10). I would rather not grab with both hands what my Lord refused. ✅ I think He meant it when He told Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36). ✅ I think my neighbor bears the image of God whether or not he shares my passport, my pew, or my party (Genesis 1:27). ✅ I think the power of God is the cross and not the flag (1 Corinthians 1:18). ✅ I think the saints of old "confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth" (Hebrews 11:13), and I'd like to keep walking in their company. Some of you have been upset by my posts against Christian Nationalism because you're a Christian and you're patriotic. Well, amen. My posts aren't aimed at you, which is why I'm careful to name the movement and not the love of country. Patriotism says, "I love this land, I pray for her leaders, and I'm grateful to be here." Christian Nationalism says, "This land belongs to us, and the gospel's future depends on who holds power in it." The first is a virtue. The second is a confusion, and the confusion is what worries me. You can fly the flag on the Fourth, vote your convictions, thank a veteran, and weep at the anthem. I do all of those things. What I cannot do is watch the cross get stitched onto a campaign banner and say nothing. When the name of Jesus becomes a rallying cry for one nation's power, the watching world stops hearing "God so loved the world" and starts hearing "God so loved our side." That is too high a price for any election. So if you love your country and love your Savior more, we are on the same team. My warning is for the teaching that would trade the kingdom that cannot be shaken for one that can. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). That was true in Zerubbabel's day, and it is true in ours. Love your country. Pray for her. Serve her well. But lay your crown at the feet of the only King whose throne will outlast every flag on earth.