The Kingdom of God (7)

"Who … hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." Colossians 1:13 No one should fear identifying the church as the kingdom because he supposes that this limits the extent of the kingdom in the world. This is the fear of some. They think that the kingdom would be shut up in the narrow confines of the instituted church. In fact, one of the main charges made by postmillennial Christian Reconstruction against the identification of the church as the kingdom is that "this equation of the...