Thursday, October 13, 2005

Who's to integrate whom?

One of the hot issues today, is: who is to integrate whom?, when it comes to the relationships between the church, the state, and the family.

One significant organization today promotes the idea of "family-integrated churches." My thesis on this web site is exactly reversed; and that is should read: church-integrated families.

In truth, wherever we can be influenced for good, let it happen. But let us keep in mind that God works from the top, down; and not the other way around. Jesus came from heaven to earth, in the incarnation. He is the Head of His church, which is His colony of heaven on the earth.

The church, then, is the principal agency of God on the earth--and it is her mission to bless the rest of the world.