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Give Thanks for America, But Don’t Confuse It for the Church

Give Thanks for America, But Don’t Confuse It for the Church

Last updated on: July 6, 2026 at 8:04 pm by Frederick Schmidt

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Give Thanks for America, But Don’t Confuse It for the Church 2026-07-06T20:04:23-06:00 Frederick Schmidt

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Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. (Romans 13:1, NRSV) | Photo by Jeffrey Hamilton on Unsplash.

On Citizenship, Celebration, and the Christian Faith

As we were flying home from Italy two nights ago, I began working on a sermon for Sunday, July 5, for the second time. “Flying home” — I am sure you have used that language, too. Not in reference to writing a sermon, of course, but in describing a trip back from a place that is not “home.”

Like you, too, we met some wonderful people on our trip to Italy. We had some great conversations, and we even experienced some measure of connection with people. We also came to appreciate, in a less abstract fashion, why Italians take understandable pride in their country and the regions where they live.

Umbrians take pride in being home to St. Francis. Florintinis take pride in their contribution to the Renaissance. The Bolognese take pride in their food. And Romans take pride in being – well – Romans. But even those observations just scratch the surface.

Belonging, intimacy with the people and culture of a place is forged over time – over a lifetime – and through participation. And psychologists have learned what we can all intuit. You can’t get that sense of belonging without living it.

The Purpose Governments Serve

People also build institutions that give order to their shared lives: governments, schools, libraries, justice systems. When we arrived in Rome, we found ourselves in a hotel across the street from a building housing a number of heavily armed Carabinieri. It took a few moments to spot the sign that identified the building that they were guarding as home to Italy’s antimafia and antiterrorist unit. We were, depending on how you look at it, on the safest or most dangerous street in Rome. But from an Italian’s point of view, our hotel’s neighbors perform an indispensable function in protecting the country from malevolent forces.

Though I doubt that he would have put it that way, this helps to explain why Paul told the ancient Romans in his letter to the church there:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. (Romans 13:1, NRSV)

Paul is pointing out that nations and the structures that accompany them serve a purpose which – even we as Christians – should not ignore. He knew that the church might conclude that with the arrival of God’s Kingdom, believers could dispense with paying taxes and obeying laws. But Paul cautions them: they are in the already-but-not-yet, and governments still serve a purpose.

He also pointed out that the Lordship of the Resurrected Christ has no need to supplant those rulers or to establish his own earthly kingdom. Governments perform an important but very limited role, and God does not need to exercise temporal power or supplant it by creating a human utopia. In part, because that is not God’s goal, and in part because a broken humanity is not capable of conquering sin, death, or its hold over the world.

In this respect, Paul’s teaching is congruent with that of Jesus, even though their language differs:

The claims of God on our lives are absolute and transcendent.
Life in the Kingdom of God – in the body of Christ – is distinct from our obligations as citizens.
And our commitment to God in Christ requires that we observe that difference.
We are citizens of the Kingdom of God and that claim is singular and enduring.
That said, we live in the already-but-not-yet, and we are also – for the time being – part of a nation with human leaders, specific values, and a finite role.
We should not confuse the two, nor should we fail to honor the claims that those commitments make on our lives.

Citizens of Two Kingdoms

So, on this 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, where does this leave us as Christians?

Like Christians past and present, as God’s servants living in a broken world, we rely on our national identity for a sense of belonging and safety, and there will be much in that identity to be proud of. In fact, thanks to a confluence of events over the centuries, our country has been deeply influenced – consciously and unconsciously by Jewish and Christian values. For example, our national emphasis on freedom and the value of every human being is rooted in the conviction that we are all made in the image of God.

But we should also remember that our country is not the Kingdom of God or the church. That was one of the mistakes that ancient Israel made when it pleaded for a king. It is definitely the goal that drives some forms of Islam today. And it is a project that – in the history of the church – has been tried and buried more than once. But it never works because such efforts rest on the presumption that God’s Kingdom can be achieved through human effort.

Two Ways to Mark the Day

So, why might Christians give thanks this year for 250 years of the American experiment? And does it compromise our devotion to Christ if we do?

The answer to those questions depends in part on how we do that. Years ago on July 4, I found myself visiting a relative whose church took an approach that, to my mind, was entirely unacceptable. It entailed a procession with flags of every kind imaginable. Patriotic hymns from start to finish. Clergy dressed in red, white, and blue (thankfully, you can do that if you wear a clerical shirt). And Christ’s calling of the church was invisible amid what felt like a full-on merging of the Gospel with the Constitution.

But there are other ways of approaching the day and we did on July 5th. We conformed our worship to the requirements of The Book of Common Prayer (as we always do). The Eucharist – as always – was at the center of our worship. And there was no doubt where we believe our ultimate allegiance lies. Later in the service we said a special collect or prayer, and we sang “America the Beautiful,” which is, itself a prayer – a prayer of thanksgiving and a prayer for guidance, wisdom, and courage.

Some of you may feel that this is not the year you can say those prayers. Let me suggest there may be good reasons for you to feel otherwise:

One, remember that – as in the prayers of the people – we are not praying for individuals; we are praying for justice and peace.

Two, remember that we are giving thanks for a vision of our life together. Commitments that are not made real by politicians but by the people sitting next to you.

No Nation’s History Is Clean

Three, remember: Whatever your feelings about America today, we are neither perfect nor uniquely flawed. As Senator Chris McDaniel observes:

All nations have had their evils. England gave us the common law, trial by jury, and a great inheritance of ordered liberty. But England also built an empire that stretched across the globe, ruled distant peoples, extracted wealth, and left wounds from Ireland to India to Africa.

France gave us Lafayette, art, and revolution. But France also gave the world the guillotine, the Reign of Terror, colonial brutality, and a revolution that too often mistook bloodshed for virtue.

Germany gave mankind Bach, Beethoven, Luther, Goethe, science, industry, and philosophy. But in the twentieth century, it also gave the world Nazism, death camps, and mechanized murder on a scale almost beyond speech.

Russia gave the world Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. It also gave the world Lenin, Stalin, the gulag, forced famine, secret police, and millions entombed beneath the machinery of the state.

China gave mankind ancient wisdom, invention, poetry, and civilization. But Mao’s communism starved, purged, and terrorized millions. And today, the Chinese Communist Party still crushes speech, religion, dissent, and human dignity under the heel of the state.

Japan gave the world discipline, tradition, and astonishing industry. But Imperial Japan left a record of conquest, massacre, forced labor, and cruelty across Asia.

The Middle East gave the world prophets, trade, learning, law, and ancient faith. But many of its governments have persecuted religious minorities, suppressed women, silenced dissent, and treated liberty as a threat.

Africa is filled with ancient peoples, deep cultures, faith, and endurance. But its history, like every continent’s history, is not clean. Long before modern lectures about America, rival tribes and kingdoms fought wars, took captives, and sold human beings into bondage.

Human history is not clean. It is not a children’s book. It is a long record of kings, empires, mobs, armies, prisons, plantations, purges, castes, camps, colonies, and graves.

As McDaniel notes, what we did do, however, is give the world “a written Constitution. Separated powers. A Bill of Rights. Trial by jury. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. Due process of law. Elections. Appeals. The power of ordinary citizens: the lawful power to tell the government ‘no’.” And, perhaps most significantly, a Declaration that gave even people who were originally excluded from its benefits the language that even the oppressed could eventually point to and say, “You promised.”

All that said, I think that our attention as members of the body of Christ should lie elsewhere. As American Christians, we are in an unusual position historically. We are free to observe our faith, we are free to witness to that faith, and we face relatively trivial opposition as Christians. We can and should give thanks for those freedoms; and without ever confusing the nation with the church or politics with the practice of our faith, and without ever whitewashing our history, we should give thanks that, unlike parts of the church past and present, we have that freedom.

What Have We Done With the Blessing?

So, what we should ask ourselves is not, “Can we say a prayer of thanksgiving for this blessing?” The question we should ask ourselves is this: “What have we done with that blessing?

Have we done everything possible with this freedom to spread the love, mercy, and truth of God in Christ? Have we used our gifts, our wealth, our time, and our freedom to accomplish that mission?

Do we even consciously ask ourselves those questions? And if not, why not?

If the answer to those questions is “no” or if the answer is “we haven’t done enough”, it is certainly not because we are embattled. It is not because there are obstacles to that mission. It is because we lack the commitment, the vision, and the historical perspective to recognize what a rare opportunity we have been given.

If the answer is “no” or “not enough,” then let us ask ourselves, “What can we do with the gift that 250 years have given us?” And let us dedicate ourselves anew to serving our crucified and resurrected Lord.

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