Transforming Society (13)
Preaching the gospel and planting churches is not enough. We must start transforming our communities from the bottom up. If a number of churches do the same thing, an entire society can be transformed in the same way. Christian communities should deliberately take up the tasks that are currently seen as the responsibility of the government. Then when the state begins to collapse, we will have something to put in its place. The Kingdom of God will advance locality by locality.The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough (Matt 13:33).
Christians are experts on loving one another, so building local communities should be “bread and butter” for us. If we provide social support for everyone living in our neighbourhood, a radically different lifestyle could emerge. Motivated by love, strong communities will emerge on a voluntarily basis:
2 comments:
Hello Ron, hope you and Lindsay have thawed out a little in the mini winter 'heatwave' youve been having!
came across some relevant notes on a blog from a talk last week by Mike Pilavachi (again!) extracts below.....
-Jesus was holy, and he lived in a broken world. In the midst of it. We were never meant to sit in our little Christian castles and do evangelistic skirmishes. The devil created that model.
-We need to break down the walls of the Church and get out there.
-Before Queen Anne, education, medical care and social services were provided by the Church. Then that changed and we wonder why we seem irrelevant?
-We are called to do great things.
-GO! Matt 28 the great commission.
-The spirit of generosity is a great cure from materialism
Hi Charlotte
The snow was followed by a week of hot sunny days. It is nice that spring has arrived.
Those are great quotes.
Ron
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