The Fear of Victory
The Lord will not be content with a tithe of our life or obedience; He only accepts all of it. To be victorious in the Lord means losing our life and our own control of ourselves to the Lord; and I submit that even as with Joash this is the problem in our lives and in the life of the church today. Like Joash we have a fear of victory.
- R. J. Rushdoony
The Lord will not be content with a tithe of our life or obedience; He only accepts all of it. To be victorious in the Lord means losing our life and our own control of ourselves to the Lord; and I submit that even as with Josiah this is the problem in our lives and in the life of the church today. Like Josiah we have a fear of victory.
II Kings 13:14-25
- R. J. Rushdoony
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony (1916–2001), was a leading theologian, church/state expert, and author of numerous works on the application of Biblical law to society. He started the Chalcedon Foundation in 1965. His Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) began the contemporary theonomy movement which posits the validity of Biblical law as God’s standard of obedience for all. He therefore saw God’s law as the basis of the modern Christian response to the cultural decline, one he attributed to the church’s false view of God’s law being opposed to His grace. This broad Christian response he described as “Christian Reconstruction.” He is credited with igniting the modern Christian school and homeschooling movements in the mid to late 20th century. He also traveled extensively lecturing and serving as an expert witness in numerous court cases regarding religious liberty. Many ministry and educational efforts that continue today, took their philosophical and Biblical roots from his lectures and books.