Under Biblical Law, the issue is not changing people’s hearts. That is something God alone can do. Nor are we particularly interested in changing their minds, since that really gets nowhere in particular. We don’t care about someone’s policy agenda; we want to stop the implementation of things that violate God’s dominion in our lives.
If, for example, we sense the need for a violent response to protect something God has commanded us to guard, we do so not to attack the person or their thoughts, but to stop the violation of dominion. Once they back off, we could care less what they have in their heads and hearts, in that sense. If they keep their hands off our mission, we don’t care what they think. That is, we become aware of how they think only in the sense of tracking reasonable expectations of how they will act.
This is why we don’t engage in activism of the usual sort. We can’t change policy; the system is invariably tilted against us. The ruling elite may well listen to their own kind, but there are severe boundaries to what their minds will entertain. It invariably excludes Biblical Law.
So Antifa (“anti-fascists”) is an example of totally idiotic activism. It attacks a mindset and has very little to do with how that mindset drives action. Indeed, Antifa flatly lies about that question in the first place. They allege “fascism” in everything that isn’t what they already want. It’s all just an excuse to cause trouble because they don’t have actual control over people’s minds, yet they demand that control.
Under Biblical Law, it’s not merely that we face people with bad ideas. We also face the prophetic warning that we cannot change those ideas. We have zero hope that Biblical Law can possibly spread across the human race. God’s Law is the ultimate truth of human existence, but nobody cares, nor can they be made to care. It will spread as God touches lives, but He promised it would be rather rare. We are warned repeatedly that we will always be a persecuted minority in this world.
If we ever felt the need to gather for concerted action of any kind, it will always be aimed at blocking the implementation of whatever it is that threatens our calling and mission. Keep your eye on that issue.
