Politics

A person, not a nation, can be a Christian because only a person can be saved by grace through faith in the work of Christ.

Only the ministry of the Gospel can forgive sins, even while civil government rightly carries out retribution for lawlessness and disobedience.

Peter gives some examples of how to keep our conduct “honorable” before other people.

We do not, as followers of Jesus, put any hope or place any trust in “princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps. 146:3).