The Promised Land matters to Christians, not because we’re waiting to inherit a strip of land in the Middle East, but because the promise of land always pointed to something greater: the establishment of God’s people dwelling in God’s presence under the rule of God’s King.
From Constantine to modern politics, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between church and state. This article explains the biblical distinction between the two and why the gospel advances through persuasion and spiritual power, not coercion and political force.