because we experienced an invasion of kingdom power into our lives when we received Christ, it is our privilege to demonstrate that life and power to those still shackled by sin and darkness and to offer them a better way to live – in the freedom that Christ bought through his blood. This is our mandate, to extend the kingdom here and now on the

dispensationalists are fond of quoting the works of the church fathers to support secret-rapture teaching, this notion was in fact unknown before the 1800s.

The ‘hand’ represents our actions and the ‘forehead’ our thoughts and attitudes.

Today dispensationalism is the dominant view within the premillennialist fold. A literal, future reign of Christ from Jerusalem for 1000 years forms a key component of the complex dispensationalist system of doctrine despite the fact that it is based only on one Bible passage.

Hermeneutics is concerned with establishing the meaning of what we read in a text.

Our present priorities and behaviour will reflect our expectation of the future. Rather than looking to be rescued from this present evil generation, we expect to win it for Christ and his kingdom.

the Bible assures us that tribulation and wrath are not synonymous. Tribulation is the opposition of a hostile world; it is the enemy’s antagonism toward the church and can be expected as normal. The wrath of God, however, is something that those who belong to Christ will never have to endure. There is no biblical evidence of believers being at the

Christ’s first coming brought in everlasting righteousness.

we are born from above and no longer share the nature of this world. The consequence of being in the world but not of the world is that we will experience the same attitudes from society that Jesus himself encountered.