In recent posts I’ve written about Nene Family Church becoming a gateway to the nations and God’s passion for his own rainbow-like, multi-coloured family, made up of people from every nation, tribe and tongue. Today I read the following excellent quotation from D.A. Carson…

What we need, then, are world Christians—not simply American Christians or British Christians. By “world Christians”, I am referring to Christians, genuine believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the following things are true:

  • Their allegiance to Jesus Christ and his kingdom is self-consciously set above all national, cultural, linguistic, and racial allegiances.
  • Their commitment to the church, Jesus’ messianic community, is to the church everywhere, wherever the church is truly manifest, and not only to its manifestation on home turf.
  • They see themselves first and foremost as citizens of the heavenly kingdom and therefore consider all others citizenships as secondary matter.
  • As a result, they are single-minded and sacrificial when it comes to the paramount mandate to evangelize and make disciples.

The church, of course, is the only institution with eternal significance. If anyone ought to transcend the limitations of merely temporal allegiances, then those who constitute the church should.

The Cross and Christian Ministry(Pg. 116-117)