My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place. John 18:38
For thought we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
2 Corinthians 10:3
The Christian Fiction section at the book store has always been a oddity to me. As a kid I would make a beeline toward it to get the latest adventure of the Cooper kids, the evangelical equivalent of the Hardy Boys, only to be disappointed that The Door in the Dragon’s Throat had no dragon in it. I later discovered that Frank Peretti did write books with actual dragons in them but overall I felt a bit disillusioned by this section of the local book store. These days I walk by this section and chuckle a bit. Labeling a section Christian Fiction has got to seem a little silly to those outside the house of faith.
Recently this section has got me wondering about my beliefs. Was there anything that I held dear (like belief in dragons) that needed to be put to rest and placed in the fiction section of my brain. Fiction is great but when mixed with reality can be disastrous. I have wrestled with several issues recently but one in particular I keep running up against. It is the fiction that America is, or ever was, a Christian nation.