Should churches display the national flag and the Christian flag together

It's true, I don't display my flag at school, but I don't have a problem with the rest of the teachers in my school or any other school that do. Or in ballparks and stadiums and public buildings and so forth.

It's an issue of conscience. I'm not going to kick and scream about it. I'm just going to do what I feel led to do.

 

If it is a issue of conscience why do you not allow others the same latitude that you allow yourself in their choice to hang a flag in their church?

 

I do allow it - I don't have any control over it - but a flag in a place of worship is way different than a flag practically anywhere else. I believe very strongly that it doesn't have a place in Christian worship.

 

"I'm too spritually minded to display a flag. God forbid, I might accidently be identified as a neocon or something even worse."

 

The great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn once wrote this warning,
"To destroy a people you must first sever their roots."

 

I agree. I don't like it, but am not going to kick up a fuss if I attend a church where the flag is displayed.

If is a matter of soul liberty. If a church wants to do it that is up to them. I don't have to like it or do it myself. All I ask for is that the same liberty be extended to me.

 

How can anyone sever a believer's roots, which should be firmly planted in the gospel?

 

Do you have children?

If so did you create a godly home for them to grow up in?

Having a godly country and being founded in biblical principles is no different.

 

Is the US a godly country when it allows for the slaughter of 50 million children?

We didn't allow that in my home.

 

Refer back to my quote so as not to lose sight of the intent of my comments.

 

Your quote dealt with severed roots. I contend that nationality is the wrong place to sink our roots.

 

Our roots are not sunk in nationalism, our roots are sunk in a country founded on biblical principles. Two different views and your view is just not correct.

 

If one sinks their roots in a secular nation how can they be free if God wants them elsewhere?

If one sinks there roots in the Kingdom nationalism matters little.

 

Well I suppose that if you have roots sunk in a secular nation then that could be an issue. But that has nothing to do with anything I have said.

 

Fair enough. I misunderstood.
What kind of roots are you referring to here?

 

My perceptions is you are working to be intentionally difficult and just talking past me. I explained that this country was founded on biblical principles. You rebutted with the current abortion in the country which is irrelevant to the founding of this country. I do not believe it is possible to have a reasonable discussion with you on this issue. I just do not care to run around in your circles. I do hope you are blessed by God in all you do here and abroad.

 

Is it your claim that the US is not a secular nation?

BTW, your perception is incorrect. We differ on this issue so are not going to find agreement. That does not mean that either of us are being difficult.