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"Getting a Kingdom Mindset: We Must Forge Ahead, in a Committed Effort, to Spread a Biblical Worldview"
by Robert Ricciardelli
Oct 1, 2005
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October 1, 2005
"Getting a Kingdom Mindset: We Must Forge Ahead, in a Committed Effort, to
Spread a Biblical Worldview"
By Robert Ricciardelli
Vision to Advance
www.vision2advance.com
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worldview matters! Especially to those who
are called to manifest the glory of our God upon the earth. The concern many
have for the body of Christ is that we sometimes have saved souls but we have a
corrupted mindset regarding the Kingdom. Jesus came to establish His Kingdom on
this earth as it is in heaven.
He has given us the keys and the authority to
use them on this earth NOW and not for a later date. It is amazing how
songs like the old hymn "I'll Fly Away" reflect the way of thinking of God's
dormant Kingdom builders. This is the mindset many Christians have regarding
this world: to fly the coop in one swift moment because it isn't looking too
good down here.
The non-Kingdom mindset leads believers to these thoughts: "We need to
just hang on a little while longer because Jesus is going to come and rescue us.
We are going to leave this God-forsaken earth and be done with this planet. I
just have to hold on until that trumpet blasts, leading those in Christ to fly
and the rest of the world to fry."
This is a mindset that is looking to escape
because they only see a world that continues to get worse; they have
relinquished any hope to transform people and nations for the glory of God.
Those in this frame of mind tend to become introverted and guarded and they
believe that they are to stay away, for the most part, from non-Christians
relationally -- unless they are evangelizing them. We, as Christians, are so
full of fear sometimes that we cannot begin to fight or impact others as
ambassadors for the Kingdom.
About A
Kingdom Mindset
The Kingdom mindset says, "I know I am saved by grace, and it is a wonderful
beginning and legal entry point into the dynamics of the Kingdom of God. As a
child of God, I now have the full authority to bind and loose here on earth --
knowing by the will of God, it will be stamped with His heavenly approval. I am
here to know my God, and in Him I live and move and have my being. As I seek His
Kingdom and His righteousness, the transformation towards His likeness will give
me an opportunity to be an agent of Kingdom transformation for others. I know
that all that I face now is part of my training to reign with Him on this earth
one day."
The Kingdom mindset knows that we are coming back to this earth to reign one
day, and in the mean time, while we have breath and the Spirit of life within
us, we will live each day to magnify His Kingdom and reduce the Kingdom of
darkness. As I read the end of the Bible, I see that this earth really is going
to be our home one day. Heaven itself then becomes a temporary dwelling because
we know that we are all coming back to a new earth to rule with Him.
Knowing this, we now have our purpose: to
build His Kingdom and continue to be more and more like Him. If we know that all
the challenges we face are part of our testing and training to be like Him, we
should never fall into despair and slothfulness regarding the Kingdom.
Getting A
Kingdom Mindset
Dennis Peacocke speaks to this mindset with the following:
"As I have said over the years, one of our greatest problems in the Church today
is that we have 'saved souls' but 'secularized brains.' In other words, we've
been saved out of Egypt and we have entered into the Promised Land, but Egypt
remains within us by the way we think politically, socially, and culturally.
Yes, we reject sexual sin, drunkenness, theft, and the 'big sins', but we remain
trapped in the world's left-right political games, the capitalism/socialism
economic paradigm, and a host of unexamined cultural attitudes instilled in all
of us by our secular education and upbringing.
"Unless we cleanse our minds and rid ourselves of the counter-Kingdom content
that fills our brains, how can we be effective ambassadors as 'salt and light'
to a fallen world? Without a redeemed and applied Biblical worldview, believers
will continue to sporadically and nominally affect the world. Focused on Heaven,
and not the Kingdom, believers leave God's earth to the world-system to manage
its resources and control its people.
"We either are too self-absorbed to care about the culture's captivity and the
people's oppression, or we don't see the fundamental differences between the
world-system and the Kingdom of God clearly enough to know how to strategically
engage the transformation process. Because of these bondages, both world
evangelism and church reformation dramatically suffer."
For this reason and more, we as a ministry and others like our friend Dennis
Peacocke (www.gostrategic.org), must
forge ahead, in a committed effort, to spread a Biblical Worldview. However,
before we can do this, we need to be diligent to be trained by the Master
for all He has assigned for us to accomplish upon this earth to the glory of the
King through His Kingdom, in Jesus name. Amen.
CHRIST IS ALL,
Robert Ricciardelli
Vision to Advance
www.vision2advance.com
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