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Thank you for your support, and we hope you I hope this finds you well. We are in a series that I've entitled

Government Gospels. The idea comes from David Coy's this massively important book,

Political Visions and Illusions, wherein he argues that political ideology is in essence

political idolatry. Behind every political theory is a good thing that we have made an ultimate thing, which is the essence

of idolatry. And because of this, the idol behind the ideology is in charge, and thus the

political philosophy serves the idol embedded within. But we don't just casually subscribe to these political idols. Instead, we

serve them trusting that the idol offers a form of deliverance, a promised salvation. Thus,

these political ideologies become their own counterfeit gospels, vainly promising to fix this broken world.

They are government gospels.

And the one I want to pick up this week is conservatism.

For my audience, this one is probably the biggest.

Most people who listen to my podcast would probably self-identify as a

Christian conservative. And so I just want to urge us to place even our cherished

conservatism under the microscope of Christian evaluation and even criticism.

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