Jesus Christ is Lord of All
Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,
I hope this edition of Parent News finds you walking closely with the sovereign God of all Creation.
As I write I am aware that today there are many in our CCS family who are celebrating the results of the presidential election, and at the same time many who are not.
I would like to speak to both groups in today’s article.
I believe that the Gospel of Kingdom transcends yet should inform upon the conduct of all human institutions. 19th century Dutch politician and theologian Abraham Kuyper famously said:
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
What does this mean?
I believe it means that Christ intends that His Word and His Spirit should be the formative agents for all human institutions, even considering the clear fact that Bible-believing, orthodox Christians generally do not form a majority in most countries around the world.
Whether the gospel is explicitly preached or not, the overarching principles of God’s Order must be evident in order for any person, family, group or nation to truly flourish.
The Creation Order and the Moral Order that God has set up, as well as His big picture agenda for the world, expressed throughout the Bible but especially in the Great Mandate of Genesis 1, the Great commandment of Matthew 22 and the Great Commission of Matthew 28, provides definition for this Order.
And our role as His missional agents who are living “not of but sent into the world” should be to apply the Gospel of the Kingdom as the basis for education, business, law, governance, identity, meaning and purpose, mental and emotional health, economics, relationships, recreation, vision and strategy, and every other human endeavor.
Why?
Because only the entity that created the ground rules for true success is qualified to be the one who created everything to begin with. Jesus Christ is the only Being with the standing to definitively answer what I call the Eternal Questions:
What is True?
What is Good?
What is Real?
What is Beautiful?
What is Human?
The Spirit of Jesus i.e. the Holy Spirit is the only true illuminative agent in our world, the only being qualified and empowered to bring life, breath, comfort, and the real time application of the word of God in our lives as He points us continually toward Jesus.
Jesus Christ, a being that is by definition not contained in His creation, stands above it and therefore transcends it.
And this is an important point, because regardless of the outcome of a single election, the moral trajectory of our nation is not trending toward Biblical holiness and godliness.
We as submitted followers of Jesus must continue to pursue not only personal holiness but also a corporate commitment to submit ourselves to the rule and reign of God (His Kingdom).
So here at Community Christian School, we give thanks to God for our country and the operation of a system that has withstood so much over our nearly 250 year history, and for the sovereignty God exhibited in the election results.
Yet even more we give thanks for a God who loved us enough to give His life to restore our broken relationship with Him, and to wrap us in His robe of righteousness, so that we can actually live every day in a John 15 reality.
Please join me in this daily prayer:
Father God, help me to abide in Christ so deeply that the daily grind of work and ministry and life cannot drag me down, cannot overcome His joy in me, cannot crush my peace in Him. And help me to serve You fruitfully out of that overflow.
Now may God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who proceeds from them, receive all of the glory as we continue to move step by step toward becoming a truly extraordinary school, for the greater glory of God.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom