As I laid my thoughts plain, some words stuck from my learnings over the years. Brothers, we are of different denominations, but I think it is no news how we Pentecostals treat whoever goes or "rebels" against constituted authority, especially that of the government. In this thought and rambling, one thing stuck: "Why is Oliver Cromwell looked at as a liberator?" But why are the so-called "rebels" looked at like villains 400 years later?

Yet someone today saying "I think this law is unjust" or "I don't trust this administration" gets hit with Romans 13 - "submit to governing authorities."

If we celebrate the fruit of rebellion, we cannot in good conscience condemn its spirit. The issue is not having rebellious thought - it is how it is responded to. Martin Luther was viewed as a reformer, Cromwell got a statue, where is mine?

Now don't get me wrong, this is not about whether Cromwell was objectively a good man or not, nor is it about what he did for Great Britain. It is about what counts as acceptable dissent and to whom. All other semantics can come last.

History gave Luther a denomination and Cromwell bronze. All I asked was a question. Draw your own conclusions as to why we don't extend the same grace to new generations.