The Kingdom of God (1): The Church: God’s Kingdom
James Laning argues that the church is the kingdom of God and critiques alternative kingdom views (transformational, two-kingdom, and dispensational) as producing incorrect ecclesiology. The article grounds this position in Scripture and Reformed confessions, tracing God's kingdom promises from Israel through Christ to the New Testament church as a kingdom of royal priests.
Since the church is the kingdom of God, wrong views of God's kingdom will go with wrong views of the church. The transformational view of the kingdom taught at some Reformed colleges, the two kingdom view taught by some Presbyterians, and the dispensational view promoted by the Baptists are all associated with wrong views of the church and its relationship to this world. With this in mind, we begin to look at what the Scriptures teach about the church as the kingdom of God, contrasting this...
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