In asking for a monarch, Israel rejected God's kingship over them. In their quest from security, Israel left behind a simple, biblically defined and biblically limited, tribal confederacy made up of representative democracies, and they embraced a central government that offered them protection.
Monarchy is not God's government because it replaces the divine, heavenly monarchy with a worldly one based on power and corruption.
Among other things, the Lord Jesus came to restore the rule of heaven: he becomes king but he takes the kingship back to heaven where it belongs. In doing so, he restores biblical government to the Church: not a monarchy with power coming from the top down, but in effect, a biblically defined and biblically limited confederacy of representative democracies. Each local church ruled by the representatives of the people. And these representatives form a cooperative confederation with the representatives of other churches.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
