Or Missing the King & His Kingdom To understand the Kingdom of God, we must understand the mystery of Christ, who is the King of that Kingdom. If we seek the Kingdom of God and do not enter into the mystery of Christ, we have not entered into the Kingdom, and will misrepresent the Kingdom of Heaven in the World. By and large, the Church in the Western nations has failed to see and enter the Kingdom of God, and
A Personal Investigation into the Morality of Voting “IN”, but “not OF”. These are the two contexts in which a disciple of Christ lives – IN the world; but not OF the world. (John 17:13-19) For more than two thousand years the Church has struggled to understand what this actually means; and has also struggled to discern how to actually live faithfully in these contexts – the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the World. We don’t have voting
A Witness to the Image of God? What political philosophy and what form of government may be best suited for the governance of all Humanity – both fallen and redeemed? More specifically: Is there a political philosophy which is most suited to the biblical worldview? Is there a particular form of government which inherently contains the elements of freedom of conscience and choice “in the likeness of” God’s way of governing Humanity? Is there a practical politic for both those
This eBook is a follow-up to my series entitled “A New & Living Way: An Investigation into New Covenant Worship in Spirit & Truth”. In the context of the principles examined in that series, this writing approaches the subject of “Gathering” – NOT on how we gather, or where and when we gather, but WHY we gather. The goal is to give some insight into the nature of our collective life in the New Covenant. The “collective life” I’m referring
