Last week Candice Owens and the Daily Wire ended their relationship.

And there's been a debate about a phrase that's become popular on the internet since then.

Christ is king.

On the one side you have people saying this is an affirmation of the Christian faith and a

desire to not give into secular culture. On the other side you have people saying

the phrase Christ as King is anti-Semitic or it can be anti-Semitic and it's being used by others to express contempt

for Jewish people.

So let's take a closer look.

Right at the outset we should agree it is true Christ is King. This is not a bad phrase. I've used it myself several

times to communicate the truth that society is not immune to God's commands.

So society, any country, can't defend things like legal abortion

by an appeal to separation of church and state. Christ is king overall. But that does not mean every single use of the phrase

Christ is king is good. Some people who use this phrase are taking the

Lord's name in vain or they're using Christianity as a prop to promote their own sinful

behavior.

One example would be Andrew Tate, a self-described Muslim who is admitted to pimping women

out and is being charged with rape and sex trafficking by the Romanian government.

He writes,

As a Muslim it warms my heart to see the resurgence of spirited Christian declarations.

Christ is king.

And I pray Christianity regains its strength and protects its societies

against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan.

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