From the Pulpit Article
Christian Supremacy is not the Supremacy of Christ
Pastor James Roland
March 6, 2026
Eye spots on an owl butterfly mimic the eyes of an owl. Two completely different species, yet at first glance, one might be mistaken for the other. That’s no accident, its intentional. When certain animals mimic others, they gain some of their survival advantages, fooling predators and prey. Something similar happens in the spiritual realm, where some force appropriates another’s persuasive reputation for their own divergent purposes.
The day before the January 6th Insurrection, mega-church evangelical pastor Ché Ahn prophesied at a Washington D.C. rally that “we [evangelical Christians] are going to rule and reign through Donald Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.” As an evangelical Christian pastor, I find that utterly contradictory and repulsive.
According to Matthew D. Taylor, in his book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy (2024 Broadleaf Books), “Christian nationalism is a vision committed to making a particular nation—the United States or Brazil or Hungary or Russia—a Christian one. But nationalism also tends to carry a certain xenophobic connotation; that is, Christian nationalistic fervor tends to include a wariness of outsiders, a preoccupation with Christianizing one’s own nation, even if that’s at the expense of caring about other nations.”
Yet even more disturbing is a “Christian Supremacist,” defined by Taylor as, “someone who thinks that Christians should occupy authoritative and privileged positions in culture, politics, and other domains of public life. In other words, Christian supremacists believe that Christians—by dint of being Christians—are morally elevated above the rest of humanity and are empowered by God to govern civil society.”
As an old man at the end of his life, the Apostle John wrote several letters to help Jesus’ followers discern between true and false versions of Christianity. St. John writes in 1 John 4:1-6, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. … By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
Since the earliest creeds, Christians have believed in the power of prayer, in choosing right over wrong, in the reality of spiritual beings and the cosmic conflict between good and evil, that people of faith need to engage in the civic enterprise and that worldview ideas have real consequences, that Jesus is going to return to judge the living and the dead, assigning the wicked to eternal punishment and the righteous to God’s everlasting kingdom. Christians believe in the divine Lordship and supremacy of Jesus Christ over all of life.
Yet some creatures mimic others, and one might easily be mistaken for another. Someone like Ché Ahn uses God words like mine. That’s no accident, its intentional. They seek to gain Christian advantages, yet “They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.” Test the spirits. MAGA Jesus is not the real Jesus.
Aspirations of Christian Supremacists “to rule and reign through Donald Trump” stand in utter opposition to the supremacy, mercy and grace of Jesus Christ. 1 John 3:16 speaks the truth, “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” Come quickly, Lord Jesus.