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Eight Spheres of Influence

Influence or Takeover?

Influence or Takeover?

Often when people read or hear about Christians influencing culture, they immediately think; "that person is wanting a theocracy. God hasn't called us to that!" No and yes. No, when one as myself addresses influencing culture, I'm not thinking theocracy. And yes, God hasn't called us to build a theocracy.

But, I am thinking of influence. For example, do you know where the idea of separation of powers, which our republic has, came from? It orginated in Switzerland…

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The Dominions of Earth

When God created Adam and Eve (Genesis, chapter 1), He gave them authority.  He told them, "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth".  The word for "rule", also means "manage".  This is pretty heady authority God gave to Adam and Eve. 

In Psalm 115:16 it says, "The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind."  Though everything …

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