Loving Jesus in a Secular Age

Please listen to The Gospel Coalition podcast Loving Jesus in a Secular Age with Tim Keller
One section we need to think about.....
Colin Hansen (inteviewer):.... Which side (Christians and secular) is more messianic now in their politics? Years ago for Books & Culture, I reviewed a book on the American presidency by a presidential scholar and he talked about how through the 20th century, our expectations of the presidency have expanded beyond comprehension that essentially that office will crush any human being who aspires to it and earns it. The expectations are simply impossible. And as we’ve seen these messianic expectations from Christians for politics, it might even be surpassed by people outside of faith who ascribe to a secular worldview. Is that a bubble that might burst for those expectations that could be an avenue to be able to show the love of Christ and the kingdom of God in that atmosphere?.....

Jen Pollock Michel: I mean, I wonder if it returns to our conversation about longings, the longings of the human heart for a righteous king, for a Messiah, for a kingdom, for the government to be on the shoulders of the only shoulders broad enough to carry it. And if those longings are on both sides of the political conversation and we have an opportunity to say you’re not going to find that in your next presidential candidate but I get to tell you a better story.