There are many dangers to Christianity that Christians do well to expose and fight against.

There is one danger, however, that many Christians not only tolerate, but seem to embrace

wholeheartedly.

That danger is the idol of statism, in which the government sets itself up as an alternative

to Christ's provision, authority, and lordship.

Why do so many Christians love this particular idol?

Tune in now as we explain. All right, welcome back, gentlemen.

Good to be back with you all again.

As always, looking forward to our discussion again today.

And today, the topic on order is the topic of stateism.

And we are going to explain statism here in a few minutes,

but to get us started, I thought I would give us a couple of thoughts and comments in an area

that most people on a gut level would just assume, yes, this is a good thing. This is a good

thing. And that is the area of foster care, CPS, and child protective services, CPS.

Other states use a different acronym DOT or something.

I don't know.

There's a different one.

But the governmental organization that steps in when the sphere of the family is dysfunctional, sinful,

there's abuse, that sort of thing. And we would all agree, as we're talking here, about

government overreach and statism, that the spheres, Kuyper's spheres, the state, the state,

the family, the church, they're not totally distinct from one another, right?

There's appropriate overlap. And so this is one where I think a lot of Christians would be

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