I hope, if you are an American, you had a great day celebrating the estalishment of our covenantal republic.  This whole series is designed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of America.

The founders of America lived with what I call a proleptic vision. This was a vision that lives messy, every day lives now in the light of the future Kingdom.  His Kingdom has come, is coming now, and will come.  In essence, our present mission is to bring bits of light into this present darkness in anticipation of His full light dawning.  It piggybacks on our Lord’s commission for us to pray, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”  With a proleptic vision, we can work to bring the future reality of Christ’s reign into our present families, churches, workplaces and cities.

In light of this, our founders worked to establish true freedom for an entire nation.  Freedom is not the absence of restraint but living according to the design God gave for human flourishing.  God’s call to the newly freed Hebrew slaves was not to give license to their lawlessnes.  This has never been God’s definition of freedom, nor was it our founders understanding.  His call was for those newly freed slaves to establish a “God way” of building a people and a nation.  Kingdom laws for free nations are not oppressive — they are the path to life.

For the 250th Anniversary

The founders of America believed they were establishing something that could bless future generations because it was built on principles that reflect God’s design. This section of Occupy calls us to recover that same forward-looking, hope-filled engagement rather than defensive cultural retreat.

Breaking the Sacred-Secular Divide

The proleptic life refuses the divide. Every sphere — from the dinner table to the city council — becomes a place where the future Kingdom can be tasted now. There is no “secular” zone where Christ’s Lordship does not apply.

Action Point

This week, practice proleptic living in one ordinary area. Ask: “If Christ’s Kingdom fully reigned in this part of my life (my marriage, my work, my neighborhood), what would it look like? What one step can I take toward that reality this week?”

The victory is won. Now we live our every day lives as if it is.

In the next blog we will move into: The Solution: The Truth Will Set You Free.

For the Kingdom,
Darrow Miller And Friends

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