Hi Billy, One minor point:
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2011, at 22:26, [email protected] wrote: > But we must remember. God can gather people for his kingdom under any type of > government. [ I donno about that, what about Nazis and Commies ? Maybe some > can be gathered , but many can be killed. And these days in various Muslim > countries, the Christian populations have been decimated ] Some of the > biggest revivals in world history have taken place under the most > inhospitable of regimes. Knowing God's sovereignty over all, we can > therefore, bare up under unjust laws with patience if and when we have to. So > we fear no man or law, for what can he do beyond kill our body? Nothing. There is an interesting difference in perspective here. The author (and I, for that matter) are ultimately more concerned about the kingdom of God than the physical world. Yes, we work for a just and free society as one way to reveal the Kingdom of God. But if that fails and we are persecuted, we will use -that- as simply another way to reveal the Kingdom. As Bonhoeffer did under the Nazis, and many Chinese do today. Persecution isn't our first choice about how to reveal God's Kingship-- but it might be God's. E -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
