becoming "foreigners"???

I spoke yesterday about politics in church, where our politics, or our politeuma, really are. Our true citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20). I shared several quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville's critique of American democracy. What Tocqueville noted about America has some warnings for us as American Christians. There is always a temptation to follow along in the currents of our culture, when we are actually called to be Heaven's ambassadors, temporarily residents here to show and share God's glory and salvation in Christ. There is much that distracts us, but we who have been raised with Christ must seek those things which are above...(Col 3:1-4), and represent Heaven's values, even above our own interests, while we are here.

Here are those quotes (from De la démocratie en Amérique):
1. The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
2. There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
3. There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
4. There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
5. Materialism results from a passion for equality because people think that they ought to be able to have as much wealth as everyone else. Indirectly, materialism also comes from the philosophical tendency fostered by democracies to disdain lofty ideas or thoughts of eternity.
6. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

And one more...
Our home is in heaven, and here on earth we are a colony of heavenly citizens - M. Dibelius