dailydeclaration.org.au
2025-11-08
The relationship between America and the Church has always been one of shared dependence but unequal necessity. America, for all its achievements, cannot long endure without the moral and spiritual framework that Christianity provides.
The Church, meanwhile, benefits from America's freedoms, its protection of conscience, speech, and worship, yet the Church's existence is not contingent on any nation. The Church was born long before America and will outlast it. Still, within the unfolding of history, these two entities have been providentially intertwined.
America's experiment in liberty was possible only because of a Christian moral imagination that valued virtue over license and truth over power. But as that moral foundation weakens, the nation risks forgetting what made it both free and good.
In this article, I will explore that delicate balance: how Christianity shaped America's founding, how the Church must preserve its prophetic voice, and why the health of both depends on a renewal of faith and conscience.