Curious Christian

In Galatians, Paul is clear: the good news of Jesus is not bound to any one nation, culture, or ethnicity. When some insisted that Gentile believers had to take on Jewish cultural identity markers to truly belong, Paul named it for what it was, a distortion of the gospel.

Christian nationalism is a modern form of that same distortion. It insists that faith in Jesus is not enough, that you must also ground your Christian identity in a specific nation, ethnicity, or party. But to add these conditions is to deny the sufficiency of Christ.

Paul’s fierce words to the Galatians cut through our confusion: “If anyone is preaching to you a gospel other than the one you accepted, let them be under God’s curse” (Gal 1:9). The nationalism that seeks to merge Christ with cultural or ethnic supremacy is not good news at all, it is slavery to the current world order.

In Galatians, Paul preached a gospel where allegiance to Christ transcends every other loyalty, and where belonging is a gift of grace, not a matter of blood and soil.

So here is the challenge: resist every attempt to baptize nationalism as Christianity. Refuse to measure faith by conformity to any culture. Live as witnesses of the kingdom of God, showing by your lives that Jesus is Lord above all nations.