Culture of the Kingdom
Today’s Topic: Apostles’ Doctrine: Church Culture vs. the Absolute Monarch
Scripture: Matthew 28:18
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
In our last message we talked about the Kingdom of God being an absolute monarchy. But if we look at today’s current culture we see something starkly different than what was the first century church. Because Jesus is the King of the Kingdom, He does not care about our social policies and changing of society. Moreover, He does not care about being popular so popularity is not an issue for Him. Funny, the Kingdom of God is the one thing that every man and woman on Earth is looking for. Religion is just their attempt to look for it. But the commands and decrees from Jesus do not sway with popular opinion or status.
The leadership in the church today has accommodated to the demands of the culture, society and/or nation. Now let me explain. This is only an issue when the church has to come up with these public relation positions and all of these crazy committees we make up as a means to reach out in the community. I have not read in the scripture when God appointed a public relations committee to the earth to help draw people into the church. Can we see how foolish this sounds? Now let me show you this. What this is building in the church is a culture that needs marketing by the means of the world to draw people in to the church. But this is not what the King ordained or decreed. Leadership today is looking at the money and membership as the barometer of growth. It has nothing to do with teaching Kingdom culture, government and principals. They survey the surrounding market to see what would draw them in and that is the direction the church will go in. Now when membership starts dwindling the church then has to look at itself and change based upon society to maintain membership. Forget discipleship and definitely forget the words of Christ when He said if I be lifted up I WILL DRAW all men unto me. So Christ is the one who draws not us. But when you are lead by someone or the church does not have Kingdom culture then the church will be ever changing but changing based upon the world’s ways and not Jesus Christ, the King of the Kingdom.
Now to experience and live in the Kingdom of God, you must submit yourselves to the rule of Christ. Now you cannot and better yet, you will not experience the culture of the Kingdom until you submit. Remember this is an absolute monarchy and everything hinges on obedience and righteousness (right-positioning) with the King.
Now when we obedient and are in right-positioning with the source of authority then we can receive the benefits from living in the Kingdom and being ambassadors for the King and the Kingdom. In the next message we will look at the Apostles and the type of authority they are granted.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
