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The Doctrine of the Lesser MagistratesBook this TopicThe doctrine of the lesser magistrates provides proven guidelines for proper and legitimate resistance to tyranny, often without causing any major upheaval in society. In this presentation, Pastor Matt Trewhella explains how we can rein in lawless acts by government and restore justice in our nation, and he provides multiple examples of officials doing just that.
Matt Trewhella serves as Pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church, located near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated with honors from Valley Forge Christian College in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Theology. He married Clara Tolnai in 1981, and they have 11 children and 35 grandchildren, including one great-grandchild. He has lectured at hundreds of Christian and political gatherings, and has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows. He has also been invited to speak to eleven state legislatures and multiple sheriffs, attorneys general, lieutenant governors, and governors.
He is the author of The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government. This is the first book written on the lesser magistrate doctrine in over 300 years. It has sold over 140,000 copies as of January 2024.
He published the first-ever English translation of the Magdeburg Confession (1550), which first formalized the doctrine of the lesser magistrates.
Pastor Trewhella founded Missionaries to the Preborn, the first Christian mission in America to target the preborn child as its people group. Since its foundation in 1990, six of the eight abortion clinics in Milwaukee have closed, and abortion in Wisconsin has dropped by over 60 percent.
He created the Tell the Truth Tours and Campus Town Tours, where large photographs of preborn babies — both developing in the womb and murdered by abortionists — are displayed.
He is the architect of the Tollway Oasis Rescue in which pro-lifers chained themselves to abortionist Aleksander Jakubowski’s Mercedes Benz when he stopped at the highway oasis on his way to Milwaukee on Interstate 94. Pastor Trewhella has spent 15 months in American jails for non-violently interposing at abortion clinics on behalf of preborn babies.
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