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By Howard A. Snyder
A vintage revisited--revised and improved. For over twenty-five years, Howard Snyder's Community of the King has set the normal for a penetrating examine the connection among the dominion of God and the earthly church. Biblically and essentially Snyder is helping us imagine via such an important questions as
- What is the dominion of God?
- What function does it play in history?
- What does it suggest for the church to be an agent of the kingdom?
when we take hold of the character of the dominion, Snyder is helping us discover its implications for the church as we adventure it in everyday life. The church, he argues, is a part of God's dramatic plan to reconcile all issues to himself. The church that's precise to its calling will emphasize the God-given presents of all its participants and advance buildings and techniques that mirror God's reign on the planet. as well as a totally new bankruptcy on advancements in Christian pondering at the church seeing that its first booklet, this re-creation of Community of the King features a totally up to date bibliography and is revised all through. here's a vintage publication for all all in favour of church existence and development.
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14 The shift may not be as great since Protes tantism was never totally wedded to the hierarchical view of the Church. But that the Lausanne Covenant does represent a major change in models for the Church’s self-understanding is obvious to anyone who compares its statement on “The Church and Evangelism” with such historic Protestant affir mations on the Church as the confessions of Augsburg and Westminster. 15 If the Reformers did not specifically endorse the institutional/hierarchical view of the Church, neither did they have reason to reject it.
In a somewhat different context, this same “summing up” per 49 GOO S MASTER PLAN spective is evident in Hebrews 1—2. Christ’s parables of the Kingdom also point in this direction. And Isaiah, Peter and John speak of God creating a new heaven and a new earth (Is. 65:17; 66:22; 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1). The testimony of Scripture is consistent: the same God who created the uni verse perfect,׳and sustains it in its fallen condition (Heb. 1:3), will restore all things through the work of Jesus Christ.
He uses a zoom lens, for the most part taking a close-up of personal redemption, but periodically zooming to a long-distance, wide-angle view which takes in “all things”—things visible and invisible; things past, present and future; things in heaven and things on earth; all the principalities and powers—in the cosmic/historical scene. To understand truly what God in Christ has done for and through people, we must step back and look at God’s entire cosmic design. This is the Pauline view of God’s master plan.