This document provides perspectives and positions of the Kingdom of God on the subject of Politics. Definition of Politics is provided and the formative process of the faith is also outlined as reflected in Genesis. The idea of outlining the formative process of the faith is to create a picture of what we are returning to as the Church, the Body of Christ - that the beginning (Genesis) provides the context and reason for our salvation. We can not assume why God saves us neither can we use church's tradition to understand salvation.
One compelling point is made in the presentation, that the faith (our System of Belief) is bigger than religion (i.e. the idea of meeting merely for ceremonial reasons). The faith is about the definition, development and advancement of human life - in the beginning God said, 'let us make man (a human being) in our image and our likeness'. The Book of Genesis therefore presents to us a God who is preoccupied with the issue of human development.
We also see that the Bible is generally preoccupied with something more than just ceremonial issues of worship, it speaks clearly on issues of Nations, Justice, Economics etc. as we see in the Books of the Prophets. Not only so, the Bible actually reveals a God who made nations and the world (cosmos: a system) – Acts 17:24&26; a God who is zealous about justice. All of this means that there is an aspect of God's nature which is yet to be unveiled, preached and taught in the churches. There is an aspect of Christlikeness which we are yet to touch and there is an aspect of spirituality which we are yet to walk into as Believers. This is the correct space for Church's functionality in the earth in the season we are walking into.
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