Shortly after college I listened to a lot of messages from the late D. James Kennedy as I drove to work each weekday morning.
He had a big influence on me, and I'm sure much of my interest in applying all of God's Word to all of life came from him.
I was reminded of Dr. Kennedy recently when a friend passed on this quote of his:
"We need to fulfill the Cultural Mandate to subdue the earth and have dominion over it. We need to see Christians going into every sphere of life to have an influence upon this world for Christ, to bring His teachings and principles to bear in every phase of life. We should live so that our culture might have the face of Jesus Christ indelibly imprinted upon it. That is what needs to be done. That is our task."
These words, of course, are simply a rephrasing of God's design for humanity as He presented it in the book of Genesis.
And they're words every generation needs to apply.
Including our own.
If we ever hope to see God transform our culture, it will require His people to faithfully take His grace and truth wherever He calls them in this world.
Get Dominion,
David Bostrom