When Government Demands Your Worship

The Scott Sauls Podcast · Mar 2, 2026 · 6m

Most of us want to be good citizens. We also sense that the political moment keeps asking for something more than our participation—something closer to devotion, or even our worship. That tension has a name, and Scripture speaks directly into it.

This episode looks at Daniel and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as two men who served their governments faithfully and refused to surrender what only God deserves. What freed them wasn't unusual willpower. It was knowing where, and to whom, they ultimately belonged. If politics has been taking more out of you than it should, this conversation is for you…