1. Active resistance to tyranny, and to this tyranny in particular, is not just permissible for Christians. It is mandatory.
2. The question is therefore what form the resistance should take, and not whether there should be resistance.
3. The theological basis for this resistance is that Jesus is Lord, and Caesar is not. Jesus is our Savior, and one of the meanings of Savior is Healer. We already have a messianic health care program, thanks. Not only do we not need two of them, but as Christians we are not permitted to have two of them.
4. The great danger in this developing resistance movement is not that it will be unsuccessful. The danger is that it will be successful, and that the credit for it will go to the “conservative, good sense of the American people” instead of to Jesus Christ.
5. Christians may not give lip service to any resistance that by-passes the need for repentance. We elected this man to the White House, and these . . . I believe poltroons is the word I am looking for . . . to Congress. Their presence at the helm of state cannot be blamed on somebody else. The Europeans sure didn’t vote them in.
6. Resistance must be corporate, not solitary, and by this I mean more than you and your buddies. I am referring to Calvin’s doctrine of the lesser magistrates, and the more the merrier. We need officials who will “just say no.”
7. In the political maneuverings that will occur in the months to come, sharply distinguish allies from cobelligerents. Don’t think about them, or speak about them, as though they were the same thing. Enormous political dishonesty proceeds from that, and is one of the chief causes of our trouble.
8. Civic repentance means doing something fundamentally different than what we have been doing for a number of generations. It does not entail a rewind to the status quo ante. If you rent a movie and it turns out to be a dog, what would be the point of rewinding and trying again?
9. When it comes to anxiety, panic, worry, distress, or fear, repent of that. When you have repented of it, repent of it some more. God loves a cheerful warrior.
10. Pray that God would raise of an army of men who will preach the ancient gospel in power and simplicity. Apart from that, all the activity referred to in this list will be born as nothing, grow up to a mature nothing, and its gray hairs shall descend to the grave of nothing.