Another means is requiring Christian test oaths for the civil magistrate and for all voters in a democracy. We are far, far from such a covenanted status in modern Western democracies, however, and even farther than this from implementing biblical civil law. Indeed, because in many ways the modern secular state has become the substitute family and church, the immediate prime responsibility of Christians in office is to roll back the size of this godless Leviathan. This is where Christian Libertarianism comes in. Biblical civil legislation is no more designed to be enforced by a troop of secularist bandits parading as civil magistrates than biblical ecclesiastical law is designed to be enforced by pagan wolves in clerical sheep's clothing at the denominational headquarters.
All biblical law is covenant law, and the latter issues from the former.
Our goal in pressing the claims of historic Christianity in all of life is to urge individuals, families, churches, and nations to swear fealty to their sovereign Lord, entering willingly into covenant with Him and joyfully accepting His gracious law-word as their rule of life in all spheres. We are called first to extend the covenant, and then the law of the covenant. Andrew Sandlin, an ordained minister, is the president of the National Reform Association and executive director of Chalcedon. He is also the editor of Chalcedon Report , and the Journal of Christian Reconstruction National Reform Association Publishers of The Christian Statesman . Declaring the Lordship of Christ since 1864 editor Bill Einwechter A six month subscription to The Christian Statesman is FREE on request.