Christian Reconstruction, the sibling to Dominionism as both stand front and center for the "True American Holy Christian Church" are defining the "make" in Jesus' words in the same way the early Catholic missionaries "made" disciples of the Incas and Aztecs: Evangelizing replaced with coercion.
Robert Parsons writes the site manifesto.
Christian Reconstruction is a call to the Church to awaken to its biblical responsibility to revival and the reformation of society. While holding to the priority of individual salvation, Christian Reconstruction also holds that cultural renewal is to be the necessary and expected outworking of the gospel as it progressively finds success in the lives and hearts of men. Christian Reconstruction therefore looks for and works for the rebuilding of the institutions of society according to a biblical blueprint.
How should the whole of society perceive this concept? There does not appear to be much room for non-Christians and the diversity of ours or any society seems ignored here.
Christian Reconstruction is also an attempt to answer the unprecedented threat facing the Church of Jesus Christ in the 20th century resurgence of secular humanism and parallel rise of statism. The state threatens to swallow the Church ...
Whether or not this kind of rhetoric plays in the corner churches in Peoria and Pocatello, it is a reflection of how the signals from the "most high" - the political activist Christians and their Republican allies - are received, interpreted and expounded upon.
Parsons declares that the two fatal errors facing the Church are retreat and accommodation.
Retreat is failing to apply the Word of God to society and culture ... Accommodation is misapplying the Word of God in society and culture ... The Christian Reconstruction movement has been raised up by God to awaken the Church to the reality of these two fatal errors.
This is typical Old Testament thinking, the kind of thinking prevalent in the religious society and political circumstance into which Jesus came. It is the aggressive self-righteous anger against Roman Rule and gentiles that typified the deteriorated sense of what it means to be a chosen people. Had Jesus followed the logic of this position we would read today a history of Jesus joining and supporting the Pharisee's and using his biblical super powers to overrule Rome and commence the imposition of God's sovereignty..
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