• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Current
  • Home
  • About
    • About Current
    • Masthead
  • Podcasts
  • Blogs
    • The Way of Improvement Leads Home
    • The Arena
  • Reviews
  • 🔎
  • Way of Improvement

Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht takes communion in the U.S. Capitol

John Fea   |  June 14, 2023

Christian nationalists take historic Christian rites like the Lord’s Supper and use them to advance American nationalism. This is blasphemy. I told a reporter today that Christian nationalism is not a religious movement, it is a political movement. It is about power.

It looks like a handful of loyal followers were present for this Christian nationalist rite:

Jared Stacy has some good thoughts:

This act is entirely coherent with the theology of dominion espoused by the New Apostolic Reformation. It evolved out of church growth methods in the mid-20th cent. to include spiritual warfare and charismatic apostolic practices.

— Jared Stacy (@jaredstacy) June 14, 2023

“Land can be polluted” writes NAR theologian C. Peter Wagner.

The response to this pollution is spiritual warfare at several strategic levels, led by apostles like Feucht who are figures of authority given spheres of influence (like the Capitol) to seize for heaven.

— Jared Stacy (@jaredstacy) June 14, 2023

Spiritual warfare that seizes on the possibility of influence and the power of wealth: “if we do not have access to significant amounts of wealth, our attempts to take dominion will see minimal results” — Wagner

— Jared Stacy (@jaredstacy) June 14, 2023

The immediate political question, “how can we protect democracy?” is important, but it also contains a lot of moral assumptions that lie buried in those approaches. Theology brings new, potentially devastating questions to the table like…

— Jared Stacy (@jaredstacy) June 14, 2023

A quick note: There are Christian historians, political scientists and sociologists who are “tracking” NAR as a “political threat” AND a theological threat. We are part of the church.

NAR needs to question its commitment to the accumulation of wealth. Does Jesus require wealth for Christian witness? Or maybe wealth & luxury signal the abandonment of *Christian* witness, an apostasy from Christ?

— Jared Stacy (@jaredstacy) June 14, 2023

Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: blasphemy, Christian nationalism, Christian Right, evangelicals and politics, Sean Feucht, U.S. Capitol