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Mir Christendom, July 5, 2021.

Introduction.

I've been arguing often on for a few years now, on behalf of a cause that I call Mir Christendom,

meaning that Christians need to recover an understanding of the need for a distinctively Christian civil order,

and moreover, one that is not limited to just one nation.

Our assigned task, remember, is to disciple all the nations, teaching them obedience to Christ,

Matthew 28, 18 through 20.

That is the assigned mission, so what should we call it when the staging platform of that mission is accomplished?

I am proposing Mir Christendom.

What I would like to do here is set out some of the basic outlines of this project,

along with some rationale for urging the adoption of the next Christendom in such a modest and unassuming way.

What on earth is meant by that word, Mir?

For many Christians who have been affected by the problematic assumptions of secular dualism,

any kind of Mir Christendom project sounds far too theocratic and bossy,

and for the fire-eating broken glass chewing theonomous out there, all twelve of them,

the idea of a Mir Christendom sounds like we have a fatal compromise baked into the project from the get-go.

Why not a root-and-branch Christendom?

Why not jet-fuel Christendom?

Why not yellow-cake Christendom?

Why not black coffee Christendom?

Well, cool your baby jets.

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