Vocations and Kingdom Life

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Instead of laying before men their calling in Christ to minister God’s Kingdom life in every area, in their families and vocations, as priests unto God, they are told that their family, work, money, the education of their children and leadership in society and culture is merely a ‘creation mandate’ that is not related to our redemptive calling – it is ‘law’ not ‘gospel.’ Men are drilled instead to believe that the kingdom work is the work of churchmen in their institutions (the sacraments) and that their ‘secular’ role in life is to be kind and ‘loving’ at work, to be a sanctified husband and father in personal piety and then pray for the return of Christ, and if possible, on route, snatch a few brands from the burning.

Joseph Boot in The Mission of God

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  1. Rob Berger

    This is completely expected when you separate your ‘churches’ into ‘clergy’ and ‘laiety’ organizations.

    Nowhere is this division justified in scripture, the Church being a ‘holy nation, a royal priesthood’ in total. Christ specifically prohibited the use of distinctive ‘titles’ or ‘positions’ that inherently support this counterfeit system.

    This same division is mirrored in the weekly ‘Sunday attendance-based’ services. Please do a search on the word ‘daily’ versus ‘first day of week’ (or however you would style it), and recognize that EVERY instance of a ‘Sunday’ in the New Testament is ‘First of Sabbaths’ PLURAL and has to do with ONE SPECIFIC Sunday of the year, not every Sunday generally.

    When the DAILY has been put down and replaced by ‘Sunday’, modelled, taught, enforced for almost 2,000 years…what exactly do you expect to reap from people? You can’t have it both ways…and the fruit is BAD as your post clearly states.

    Please look at the inconsistencies and contradictions in your own practice, to understand WHY the fruit is bad.

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