The kingdom and the power - peter j. leithart

Activist Christians tend to assume that, if the church is to be politically influential, her first task is to become more political.

National political issues have, as a result, displaced theological and ecclesiastical concerns in the agenda and priorities of many churches.

As a result, churches, especially those dominated by an activist model of the kingdom, fail to address the world in a distinctively Christian manner-that is, as the church.

In his book, The Kingdom and the Power , Peter J.

Leithart shows from Scripture that Christians must neither retreat from the world or idolize power and mammon to influence the world but engage the world-as the church.

For wherever Christ is present, there is the kingdom.

That means the kingdom of God is in the church, the body of Christ.