Nathan Finochio is a Christian teaching pastor, author, speaker, musician and founder of online seminary TheosU. I sought his thoughts on the Bible’s instruction to ‘obey the governing authorities’ in Romans 13 in light of increasingly authoritarian regimes. 

I also sought his review of how the Christian church has handled the response to Covid-19, especially when secular government directions and laws are challenging the historical separation of church and state (an idea that the church should no longer tell the the government how to govern, and the government should not tell the church how to church).

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2:25 Canadian vs Australian politics

4:41 Jesus – the good dictator? Why Christians should have a deep distrust of people in power

6:10 The real purpose of the 2nd Amendment (guns)

7:15 The last 2 years have been a lesson on tyranny

10:03 We need healthy skepticism

12:00 How a Christian should understand Romans 13 and civil disobedience

18:41 We deserve the type of leadership that we vote in

21:24 How Christians resist bad government

24:10 Getting the vax, faking the vax and protesting

25:51 Good laws and bad laws

28:15 Being in a good war

30:44 Australians love a nanny state

33:47 Australian Churches adopt things as ‘pets’ when they shouldn’t

34:36 The problem with unity amongst Christians

37:16 Australian Christianity needs a reformation

39:40 Don’t shrink back from politics