Business as Usual

If we are accustomed to living our lives in a “business as usual” mode, if we have conformed  to the status quo from year to year, if we are unaccustomed to challenging the popular assumptions of society and the professing – church, if we have not had the courage to speak -up…then it is unlikely that we and our churches will make much, if any, difference as societal equilibrium is upended.

The City of God and the City of Man, the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world – are not only not the same, they are in conflict with each other. This conflict will continue until the Kingdom of God and its King fill the earth (Daniel 2, Psalm 2). 

The dollar and its international equivalents will not have the final word – the final Word will be the Christ of the Cross and the Cross of Christ.

The term “business as usual” and the term “status quo” should never be used in the same sentence as the term “Kingdom of God”... unless it is for purposes of contrast.