The mission of the church is in the kingdom of God

The mission of the church is in the kingdom of God

But the mission of the church is not to chase the bad guys to the end and to blame and kill them. On the contrary, you have to bring such a person into the life of God and save it. The Lord even said that it was inevitable to leave another ninety-nine animals that did not need conversion for just one lost sheep (Matthew 18; 12-14). Isn't heaven trying to defeat unrighteousness? There is no way for the church to go beyond the Lord's Passion and the Way of the Cross. This is complicated. There are two things, and how they can be combined into one is the complexity that comes from a very difficult point.

a. First of all, the church must step on and save the world. If even ninety-nine are good, but only one is lost, you must search for that one to the end. “What I want is not to take them (disciples) out of the world. I sent them to the world as you sent me to the world also”. (John 17; 15-18)

b. But there is one more thing here. While living in the middle of this world, we must save people to the world of God beyond this world. The mission of the church is in the kingdom of God. Rebuilding this world, the so-called reform, is not the final purpose. This world is also difficult."I don't care about this world, I can't say that it's just the salvation of the soul." However, it is not God's salvation that is involved in the greed of this world.

c. Then the movement of the church is not of the character that the church is standing away from the world, and from which the hand of salvation to the world can be withdrawn. It is a work that tries to save the world from the inside while living in the middle of the world. The parable of the bread type is as taught. "When a woman takes leaven and mixes it in 15kg powder, the whole swells up, the whole swells "(Matthew 13; 33). This leaven is the Lord Jesus himself, its suffering and the death of the cross. The Church is nothing more than a continuation.Then, the following four things can be considered about these things.


Gospel and revolution

Revolution is to destroy one system up to that point and establish another system instead. However, no matter how well a political or economic mechanism is created, it is the person who holds the weakness in himself that manages it. From there, an incomplete part comes out that does not go exactly as calculated. Even if you dream of an ideal society where you don't be lazy or sloppy, and you think about the structure of society based on that premise, you can't go wrong. The world is becoming more and more unpleasant even if we consider a system that cracks down on this weakness and doing things that are lazy. Actually, the mechanism of crackdown and surveillance and trying to get through it
It will be a game of ingenuity. If we try to crack down on it more and more, it will eventually follow the direction of totalitarianism.

Then, it becomes an inhuman thing to force and press one way of thinking and a way of life to the whole. No matter how clever political or economic mechanism is, there is a limit to the people who gather there, and this limit cannot be achieved by political administration alone. Eventually everyone will be the same. Even if it improves temporarily, it will collapse over time. Greece and Rome, and so did the Holy Roman Empire. In most cases, this can't be done. Even a drastic method of radically changing the social system, such as a revolution, cannot do anything.

Then, it becomes an inhuman thing to force and press one way of thinking and a way of life to the whole. No matter how clever political or economic mechanism is, there is a limit to the people who gather there, and this limit cannot be achieved by political administration alone. Eventually everyone will be the same. Even if it improves temporarily, it will collapse over time. Greece and Rome, and so did the Holy Roman Empire. In most cases, this can't be done. Even a drastic method of radically changing the social system, such as a revolution, cannot do anything.