Dear Stacey,

While this "Scripturally grounded understanding of Christian citizenship in the Two Kingdoms ... doesn’t have an expiration date" the context for the discussion has dramatically changed. We've now seen both a Trump, and a Biden/Harris (more like Obama III key staff wise) administration, and how the country and our rights as adherent Christians have fared under each.

Consider, under Trump no family would have lost a child to state agencies for failing to endorse their mutilation and sterilization . That is happening now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-can-happen-anywhere-indiana-parents-lost-custody-of-trans-teen-ask-scotus-for-help/ar-BB1io7Ta

https://nypost.com/2024/05/23/us-news/montana-parents-who-lost-custody-of-daughter-after-opposing-gender-transition-claim-14-year-old-was-taken-without-warrant/

Have NO doubt that within the LGBTQ+(?) community they know Kamala is their advocate.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/06/kamala-harris-fundraiser-call/

The Democrat Party has scrapped the democratic process in both Primary and General elections. As described by Bobby Kennedy -
"It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably awful debate performance precipitated a palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election. "
( https://im1776.com/2024/08/24/rfk-address-to-the-nation/ )

The reason the Democrat party is fighting for unchecked signatures on mail in ballots ( https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-democratic-lawsuit-seeks-to-eliminate-signature-verification-on-mail-ballots-2030416/ ), relaxed date requirements on mail in ballots ( https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2024/08/30/undated-mail-ballots-case-commonwealth-court-ruling-aclu/ ), after flooding the country with millions of illegals is self evident.

Finally, the Biden/Harris administration's serial abuse of surveillance and police powers has rendered the word 'unprecedented' useless. The Mar A Lago raid, justified not by any immediate threat but a claimed violation of the "Presidential Records Act", was executed - with media accompaniment - primairly for intimidation and media value. The Deep State designation of Tulsi Gabbard as a terrorist ( https://archive.is/Nsshi ) is criminally absurd. And, the employment of FBI counterterrorism squads to intimidate parents objecting to pornography and race marxism in schools would have been a 24/7 news item before even Obama's second term ( https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-judiciary-subpoenas-fbi-director-wray-targeting-parents-school-board).

As Lutherans, we have a vocation as 'electors' in this constitutional republic, we are accountable for the actions of our President and FBI, and we have an ugly legacy with regard to not checking the rise of a godless regime to answer for. Given the benefit of actual experience, the choice any Christian must make in November, based on "core Christian convictions", is CLEAR and our denomination's 'leaders' and 'educators' must be vocal speaking the truth in this matter.