Practicing The King's EconomyPavyzdys

Kingdom Economics The kingdom of God isn’t just a footnote in the Gospels. The arrival of King Jesus’s kingdom is the centerpiece of the biblical story that runs from Genesis to Revelation. This story begins with a generous King who is the Creator of heaven and earth. Out of His incredible generosity, this King created human beings in His image and invited them to rule over His creation with Him. Humanity’s high calling is nothing less than co-ruling and co-loving everything our God and Father has made. In other words, because we are made in the image of a creative God, we are called to (1) preserve and protect the natural world and (2) create culture and economic flourishing by stewarding the natural world. This is, in many ways, the theological foundation for our economic lives: God wants and requires us to work to bring out the unexploited potential of his world as part of our vocation. But our first human parents, Adam and Eve, rejected their God-given vocation and rebelled against God’s good and generous kingdom, bringing sin and suffering into every corner of the world. Adam and Eve’s rebellion was a rejection of God as their generous King and a rejection of their roles as coworkers in His kingdom. Kingdom economics is the study of humanity’s consumption, production, and exchange of goods and services in order to steward King Jesus’s creation as God first intended in the Garden of Eden. We believe that Jesus calls us to very different patterns of consumption, production, and exchange than those to which our Western world invites us. As we begin to follow Jesus in ways consistent with the economy of His kingdom, we will not only honor our King and serve His church but also develop the vision, character, wisdom, and habits that will allow us to see and share new ways of working for better systems. We invite you to join us in exploring the King’s economy in the Bible. We invite you to find ways to make that new economy known in this old one in which we find ourselves, becoming colonies of God’s kingdom in the midst of the kingdoms of our world. And we invite you to begin practicing this economy in your church, family, and neighborhood today. What does the kingdom of God have to do with how you spend money?