Samuel is right. And this is truly the working definition of “Christ is King.”
You see, the Great Commission is not merely private conversion; it is teaching the nations to obey all that Christ has commanded. And that necessarily has implications for the public square. Scripture repeatedly shows God using unbelieving rulers to restrain evil and accomplish comparatively righteous ends. Common grace means that an unbeliever can recognize and uphold genuine goods even while remaining outside the covenant.
So while Vivek remains outside the covenant, he has been profoundly shaped by a civilization that still bears the residue of Christianity: law, natural rights, family, ordered liberty, and the moral framework that made those things intelligible. Of course, unbelievers across the political spectrum can inherit elements of that Christian civilization while rejecting other parts of it. The issue is not whether a man is Christian, but whether his beliefs and political aims preserve or undermine the goods that remain from that inheritance. That is the slow work of the leaven in a lump.
I thought Webbon was Reformed and postmil? These are basics.
Platforming men at a “Christ is King” conference who treat Christ as a tribal mascot while demanding that a Hindu pass a theological purity test is utter hypocrisy. It is a failure to apply the very principles of Christ’s lordship that Webbon claims to uphold and defend. Christ hates hypocrites.
Conscience may indeed refuse the ballot. However, it may not pretend the Great Commission stops at the church door while the magistrate is surrendered to men committed to overthrowing the very moral order Christianity gave the West.
It’s not Vivek’s religion that Joel Webbon hates.
Some of the speakers at his “Christ is king” conference are people on the Right who are even more Christless than Vivek.
Nevertheless, you do not have to vote for anyone.
If voting for a Hindu is against your conscience, that is perfectly acceptable.
But it is also righteous to vote for a Hindu who has been influenced by a Christian worldview in order to stop a communist with anti-Christian policies.