When Faith and Flag Collide: Reclaiming the Kingdom from Nationalist Religion

In Doing it Wrong Got it Right, I shared how disillusionment can lead to discovery—that brokenness and conflict often become the very soil in which God births new clarity. This same lens helps us evaluate a crisis in our modern American Church: the conflation of faith with nationalism.

Many believers have unknowingly equated loyalty to a nation with fidelity to Christ. This merger isn’t new. It echoes Babel's original rebellion—a desire for centralized power and a name for ourselves apart from God's design (Genesis 11:4). The result is a faith shaped more by political allegiance than by covenantal love; more by earthly empires than by the Kingdom of God.

🏳️ When the Flag Replaces the Cross

Somewhere along the way, the American Church traded in its first love for something far more comfortable: a blended gospel—one that flies a national flag alongside the cross, as if they were equal symbols of hope and identity.

This fusion of faith and nationalism has become so normalized that many believers can no longer tell where their Christian convictions end and their political ideologies begin. The result? A dulled discernment, a quenched compassion, and a spiritual journey that’s lost its divine compass.

📜 From Kingdom Citizens to Culture Defenders

In Doing It Wrong Got It Right, I point out the danger of following cultural wind patterns and mistaking them for God’s will. It’s easy to justify our choices by assuming God is behind every open door. The Church has done this too. We’ve grown so entangled in preserving a version of “Christian culture” that we’ve stopped asking the only question that matters:

What does God actually want?

The cross calls us to surrender, to serve, to lay down our rights. But nationalism—especially in its Christianized form—calls us to defend, dominate, and preserve “our way of life.” When that becomes the gospel, Jesus becomes a mascot—not the Master.

🛑 The Cost of Compromised Faith

When we equate faith with national identity:

• We mistake political wins for spiritual victories.

• We demonize others instead of loving them.

• We prioritize comfort over conviction.

• We ignore the deeper voice of the Spirit in favor of cultural noise.

As a result, our spiritual eyes become dim. We no longer discern what is truly good, holy, or eternal. And worse—we lose touch with the unseen realm, the place where we are called to live by faith, not by headlines.

🌌 Walking in the Unseen—Not the Unyielding

As Crossing Over remind us, our allegiance is to a Kingdom that cannot be shaken (Hebrews 12:28). Babylon’s systems lure us into false stability—through culture wars, political power, and preservation of the familiar. But the Kingdom calls us into the discomfort that births transformation.

To walk in the unseen means recognizing that our true citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20), and that God's Kingdom often runs counter to the flags we wave or the parties we endorse.

It means:

• Weeping for the broken instead of blaming them.

• Listening for God's whisper instead of echoing culture’s anger.

• Allowing God to deconstruct our assumptions so that He can reconstruct us in Christ.

  
  

🔄 What Now?

If you're weary of a faith that feels hollow—if you sense something isn’t right but can’t name it—you’re not alone.

You might not be doing it wrong. You might just be waking up.

As Renaissance Kings teaches, leaving Babylon is only step one. The next step is learning to rule differently—through humility, wisdom, and Kingdom vision.

This is where spiritual consulting and Kingdom alignment come in. Not to give you new rules, but to help you hear God’s heart again. To rediscover the Way, the Truth, and the Life—not through systems, but through surrender.

“My kingdom is not of this world.” — Jesus (John 18:36)

The American Church is at a crossroads.

We can continue doing it wrong—clinging to systems that promise safety but deliver compromise. Or we can get it right—not by being perfect, but by becoming brave enough to follow Jesus wherever He leads.

Because the Kingdom of God is not red, white, or blue.

It is holy. It is global. And it is coming.