We experience the thrill of utterly exhausting evil from the empowerment we receive to govern ourselves in ways that reopen Paradise for all fallen people and the ruined creation.
Matthew 12:21. …until he brings justice to victory.
Ephesians 4:13-15. …until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Colossians 1:21-22. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him…
Empowerment That Anoints Us to Govern
Our empowerment to press on to maturity in relation to God, ourselves, others and creation flows as we govern from the Table in anointed ways that bring chivalric justice to victory.
Empowerment inspires us in the fourth movement of the Liturgy and in our lifestyle practice of governing to:
- Open thin places to reunite the realms of heaven and earth under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- Open thin places for the fatherless, widowed, poor, oppressed, prisoners and sick.
- Release the immortal genius of the fatherless, widowed, poor, oppressed, prisoners and sick.
- Implement forms of restorative, not punitive, corrective discipline and formative discipleship.
- Repudiate all autonomous forms of authority that are, as Jesus says, “of this world.”
- Embrace all bold and humble forms of authority that are, as Jesus says, “from above.”
- Seek to utilize the authority that is “from above” as modeled by the Acts 15 Council.
- Overcome mediatorial authority that suppresses and controls others for the advantage of a few.
- Utilize ministerial authority to holistically heal and then release all to follow their destiny.
- Make judgments ministerially, not mediatorially, with a bold humility that exhausts evil.
- Disavow the idea that human nature as fallible and finite is incapable of certain knowledge.
- Affirm that certain knowledge is received from above and is not of this world.
- Follow Jesus in exercising authority with Him in all things in heaven and on earth.
- Do justice by binding and loosing on earth what has already been bound and loosed in heaven.
- Be joyful in chivalric suffering knowing that in this way we overcome evil with good.
- Regard all ecclesiastical offices and jurisdictions as having equal but different authority.
- Regard elders, Deacons and all baptized believers as having equal but different authority.
- Expect Communicant Members to master our charism according to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- Expect Governing Members to re-master our charism according to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- Be Sentinels who welcome all whom Christ authorizes to come to the Table.
- Be Friends of God who make consensus decisions that bind and loose.
- Be Stewards who create wealth, give and tithe to fund the government of the Kingdom of God.
