Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside…
Ain’t gonna study war no more.
- Resist the temptation to conflate patriotism, especially American patriotism, with the gospel of Christ.
- Resist the temptation to shift the focus of a worship service from the Christian story to a civil observance.
- Resist the temptation to sing patriotic songs, preach patriotic sermons, show patriotic video clips, or choose any other acts of worship that tell a nationalistic story instead of a Christian one.
- Resist the temptation to suggest that love of country goes hand in hand with love of God.
- Resist the temptation to take Holy Scripture out of context in attempt to baptize nationalistic fervor.
- Resist the temptation to align military objective with the salvation of Christ.
- Resist the temptation to assume that the U.S. military is right and good in everything it does.
- Resist the temptation to speak, print, share, or tweet this kind of thing…