God’s will is to restore the balance and harmony between God and man and nature where God can come for a walk during the cool of the day. This commandment has never been abrogated. We still have to subdue the earth and impose God’s kingdom (King + dominion).
God is not looking forward to the earth getting filled with concrete church buildings but breaking land curses and transforming wilderness into fruitful gardens and reconciling the whole creation dripping with milk and honey.
The house church must ramp up “Green faith” with organic farming, water harvesting, biodiversity, food grain banks, handicrafts, market linkages for local produce and declare villages free of hunger, indebtedness, illiteracy and exploitation.
All this must be done strictly with locally available, affordable and acceptable resources and community participation, ensuring abundant life for everyone. The most enduring signs of peace, security and abundant life in the Scriptures, is a man sitting under his vine tree drinking herbal tea made with healing leaves from the tree of life with his neighbor (Zechariah 3:10; Revelation 22:3). The brick and mortar concrete church is slowly but surely meandering into green and clean Apostolic Gardens and having a picnic.
Kingdomization:
Metamorphosis of merely worship-centered churches into catalytic agents of holistic community restoration. Not just religious centers but that which bring abundant life to the whole community. Yeshua did not come to plant brick and mortar churches. He came preaching the kingdom as well as living the kingdom in His daily life in the context of the community.
Church planting is not our goal (Math. 16:18) but only a means for Kingdomization of the community and reconciling the whole creation (2Cor.5:17-20). The House church is not the only way but the Body of Yeshua Messiah has many expressions. Kingdom culture includes love, joy, peace, justice and abundant life with social, political, economic, health, educational and ecological transformation.
Kingdomization includes redeeming the professions, so that the worksites, offices, businesses, the market place, the board rooms and the parliament become outward authentic expressions of the kingdom of God. Demolishing anti-Christ culture and planting Godly counter-culture in our secular jobs must become a passion or us.
Peter started his ministry in his boat, Cornelius in the army headquarter, Proconsul Sergius in the governor’s residence, the Eunuch in the ministry of finance in Ethiopia, Pricilla and Aquila in their tent making workshop, Lydia while selling expensive purple clothes to the rich and powerful and Phoebe in Rome while conducting her multinational business. The real deal is to be fruitful, multiply, fill the industry, subdue it and have dominion over it, right where God has put us. Genesis 1:28
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