Religious claims, by their very nature, are total. Whenever someone advances a religious claim that is partial, they are not disproving this claim, but rather demonstrating that they are dishonest or confused.
If they are dishonest, they recognize that their religious claims really are total, but also that those people who are not adherents are not ready for such total claims, and for the sake of pr they back off, biding their time.
If they are confused, they make the partial claim for their “religion” in all honesty, revealing that their true religion is something else, residing somewhere else, usually with Caesar.
But we are Christians, and we assert that Jesus is Lord. Lord of what? The biblical answer is that He is Lord of heaven and earth, and all that they contain. As Christians we look forward to the day when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
This is the Christian faith. But many Christians have compromised with the idols, wanting the idols to retain their little jurisdictions. Christ’s claims are total, and there is no exegetically honest way to get them to be anything but total. There is not a square inch in the creation anywhere where the lordship of Jesus Christ will not be fully and completely and honestly proclaimed.
We do not serve a tiny Christ. We do not worship a partial Christ. His dominion will have no end, and the government will be upon His shoulder. When we have said that our means of advancing this truth are not political means, we have simply meant that politics is too small a vehicle to carry such a large message. The cardboard box of politics is not the ark of the covenant, and so we will not carry it around as though it were.
But this does not mean that “politics” is an area where the crown rights of Jesus Christ need not be declared. Not only may they be, they must be. Christ’s lordship must be acknowledged there, as well as everywhere else. But we must do it the way the Bible requires. We lay claim to that territory here, not there. We do not do obeisance to the local idols to get them to acknowledge the universal prince. We worship the universal prince, and the idols tremble and fall. The trumpets blow, and the walls come down.