A tale of two kingdoms: 3 Domains
I’ve been reading Jason Clark’s blog for some time now and I always seem to see what I’ve been thinking about in his writings. Here’s an excerpt from the post:
1. Institutional Religion: The sacred and secular divide of a belief in God, experienced in church, but separate from the world.
2. Social Service Agency: The caring for people in the world with no connection to a worshipping and confessional community of God in that reality.
3. Privatized Spirituality: Personalized non-institutionalized religion, where God is a reality in my world but not with others in any organized way etc.
4. Mission: The missio dei (mission of God)/Kingdom of God take place in the overlap of all three territories. “It is not the church of God that has a mission in the world, but it is the God of mission who has a Church in the World. “*
My fear is that the Church is swinging too far into area #3 in our quest to get to #4. I’ll have to do some more thinking on this one…
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