Obedience

Matthew 6:1 states, "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven." Luke 18:1 says, "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." We need not make anyone around us aware of what we are doing when we are in communion with our God, praying in the Spirit, etc. Obedience to Scripture supersedes government policy. The first century church would not bow down and offer sacrifice to Caesar, neither will we bow down to the current antagonists of the gospel who, in their mindless fog of humanism, would rather worship the creature than acknowledge the creator.