The Kingdom and the Power

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>In his book <em>The Kingdom and the Power</em> 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.</p>