No, Jesus came to transform the inside, not reform the outside. He said "My Kingdom is not of this world." But when the inside is transformed through conversion, that can have a profound effect on the surrounding culture as it has through the three spiritual revivals that have touched America.
That's because converted people are not as they used to be, by God's grace. It was said of the ancient church fathers that when they aimed at Heaven, they got earth "thrown in," but when they aimed at Earth, they got neither.
A person who engages in political revolution, but dies unredeemed, spends eternity apart from God.
A person who has been redeemed by Jesus Christ is more liberated than any government, movement, program, or cause can deliver.
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