Our readings in this series are from the book, The King’s Heart: The Kingdom of God and Civil Government. Here is an excerpt from page 34:
“Words like ‘freedom,’ ‘rights,’ ‘justice,’ and ‘prosperity’ are little more than rhetorical Silly Putty™ in the hands of skilled politicians. But in the hands of God, and according to His Word, such terms have fixed, abiding, and all-important meanings. The task of the Christian is to understand such ideas as God intends them, then to work from within our Kingdom framework to bring God’s ideas to reality in the social sphere. We are the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and the leaven of beauty, goodness, and truth in an age in flight from God. It ill behooves us as the followers of Christ to leave any aspect of this fallen world beyond the reach of the Kingdom and grace and truth of our Lord.”
You can order The King’s Heart in book form or a free PDF from The Ailbe Bookstore. For The Fellowship of Ailbe, I’m T. M. Moore.
