Such a fantastic question asked in a Pastor's blog series "Why We Don't Display a National Flag When Our Church Meets". I am going to share the series's link with you, as Pastor Ben Rust specifically focuses his blog series on the relationship between the church and government. So as we think about what exactly "separation of church and state" means, these thoughts will help us understand the concept more and see how it applies.
Here a couple highlights of my favorite points that Pastor Ben makes:
~"How confusing it must be to those who are not American citizens but who visit our American churches and see the flag displayed front and center. Unknowingly the message we convey is that the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Bible, and Christianity is somehow connected to and related to Americanism, and by logical extension our foreign policies, our culture, our laws. How it must incense those who have suffered unjustly because of our policies or the consequences of them. I wonder how American Christians would respond to attending a church where the communist Chinese flag was on display? Would it not rile our prejudiced patriotic passions into a heated fervor."
~"We do the church no service by displaying a flag, and neither do we do our country a service when we naively and unwittingly undermine our rights as free citizens by reintroducing the state back into the realm sacred to Christ, His church."
I now ask you to read Pastor Ben's full blog posts here.
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