Our Council has been working through Rev. John Sittema's book With a Shepherd's Heart. It has been a blessing to see anew our calling as shepherds in the local church. Today, as I was preparing for our meeting tonight, I came across this quote from Sittema in his chapter dealing with Secularism as one of the Wolf's Teeth. Read carefully:
Second, a secular culture is dualistic. By that I mean that it observes a rigid dichotomy between the realms of the sacred and the secular, between the natural and the supernatural, between the here-and-now and the eternal. We all make such distinctions easily; but a secular culture erects and impenetrable wall between them. Different gods rule in each; different laws operate in each; different ethics function in each. [emphasis mine sas] ...The Lord Christ is not allowed to be Lord of all of life; if He is given any position at all, it is only in the "sacred" part. (page 51)
Sittema continues along the same vein, and though he didn't have NL2 Kingdoms in mind, it is breath-taking how those words are so true today applied to that theological system. The implications are so far-reaching, that I think it is even a greater danger than secularism to the church, because it masquerades in "biblical" language.
