Looking for the secret of America’s greatness, Alexis De Tocqueville wrote, “I looked for it in her harbors, and on her shorelines; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and in her gold mines, and vast world commerce, but it was not there. It was not until I went to the churches of America, and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her success. America is great because she is good; and if America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
“What should we do when the state’s policy is evil? What train is rumbling past us today whose whistle we ignore? Answers are not easy to come by. Yet the question is just as relevant today as it was back then: What is the role of the church in the face of governments that have self-consciously excluded God from their policies?” — Erwin Lutzer
