The Secret to City-Wide Culture Making
The qualities that have made the Richmond Christian Leadership Institute flourish in five years are key to any leadership program, anywhere.
5.30.12
A few years ago, I found myself in a room with more diversity, intelligence, and energy than I've experienced almost anywhere else. It was a spring Saturday morning in a suburb just west of Richmond, Virginia, and gathered in a meeting room of a pleasant ...
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Rick Dalbey
David, you are right. This is a mild form of Christian Reconstructionism or dominionism. Its practitioners are building a Christian society just as the Catholic Church built a Holy Roman Empire. It does not need evangelization as a justification, they are reforming the institutions of society and making them over into a Christian Utopia.
Nate Clarke
Les - thanks for the comments. We've been asking similar questions about the stories of cities. In fact we made a short film about it. http://www.christianitytoday.com/thisisourcity/richmond/markingsingrace.htm l
Rick Dalbey
My problem with this is that it reduces the definition of Christian to collection of ethics and values that are then useful to the culture. It also promotes a kind of dominionism where Christians gravitate to the levers of political and social power. As Andy Crouch says, it is “logistics”. I am suspicious of any group calling itself a “Christian Leadership” group that talks logistics. Was that really Jesus intention that we should perfect the instituitions of society till we finally have a “Christian” utopia, then He returns? Sounds like the Holy Roman Empire to me. It sounds like the temptation offered to Jesus in the desert. As the author of Hebrews says, “Here we have no continuing city”, we are looking for a “the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God." Not Egypt, Babylon, Rome or even Richmond.
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