As we are still discussing the important subject of church government, which will also become a pattern for the coming kingdom government, the first principle in establishing and maintaining true spiritual authority is keeping the Lord as the Head of the church. Even the most perfectly biblical form of church government can be used to supplant His headship if we do not keep this main thing the main thing.

It was King David who established the throne, or seat of authority, which Christ sits upon. If there is a single phrase that describes how David did this, it...

As we are still discussing the important subject of church government, which will also become a pattern for the coming kingdom government, the first principle in establishing and maintaining true spiritual authority is keeping the Lord as the Head of the church. Even the most perfectly biblical form of church government can be used to supplant His headship if we do not keep this main thing the main thing.

It was King David who established the throne, or seat of authority, which Christ sits upon. If there is a single phrase that describes how David did this, it...

Two things that we know the Lord especially loves are unity and diversity. The Lord loves diversity so much that He even makes every snowflake different. No two trees are alike. Every leaf is different from every other leaf on the planet. He made every human being different from every other human being. The Lord's creativity and love of diversity is prevalent throughout His creation. It is therefore understandable that these two would be blended into a fundamental principle of how He will rule in His kingdom. Unity in diversity is a basic principle of His government.

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In this study of how the church will possess its Promised Land, we are taking a bit of time to examine government, because the kingdom of God is basically and first of all the government of God. Just as many conquerors in history discovered, and just as the U.S. has discovered in Iraq, it can be an easy thing to conquer a land, but an entirely different matter to govern it. As we are coming to the time when we will be possessing and inheriting the kingdom, there are practical issues concerning government in the kingdom that we need...

We have briefly discussed how the democratic principles born out of the church during the Protestant Reformation have blessed and set free many nations in this age. It is also the form of government which, when applied to the church, is considered by many to be one of the great inhibitors to the freedom of the Spirit to rule in the church. Certainly this can be the case, but it need not be. Historically, it was the Reformers applying democratic principles to church government that fired the greatest advance of the gospel since the first century through the Protestant...