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If you drove across the country in the past year, you may have seen one of these signs.
A simple, straightforward message.
Christ is Lord in stark white letters on a black billboard.
From Georgia to California, these billboards have popped up in more than 50 cities.
It was part of a nationwide campaign by Christchurch's publishing arm, Cannon Press.
They are proclaiming that Jesus is king over everything.
As Doug Wilson says, all of Christ.
For all of life.
And they're proclaiming something they want to be true in America.
I would want a Christian republic, that Christians would be the office holders.
The billboards were also doing what billboards advertising.
There's a little.com after Christ is Lord.
If you pull up that link, you get a promotional video.
It's for Doug Wilson's book Mere Christendom.
It's a 270 page blueprint for installing Christian nationalism in America.
We want to turn the world upside down, and you don't turn the world upside down by being nice.
I believe that we are in this polytheistic, pluralistic moment and the desperate need of the hour is for our Christian leadership to say Jesus is Lord and there is no other.
Fewer and fewer Americans are Christians.