"Stas-kirke" contra apostelforsamling,

eller 'Keiser og Galileer'.

"Murray celebrates the end of Christendom and all of its abuses of power."

The Christendom era began with [emperor] Constantine,
who showered his church with favors such as tax exemptions,
land and food endowments for church employees,
the closing of many pagan temples, and an honored place at the table of the emperor.

With this political endorsement, thousands swarmed into churches.

With Constantine's "conversion", the state soon began to enforce [state]Christianity
through the use of force,
and hundreds of years of bloodshed and abuse of power ensued.

This history, combined with the rise of secularization,
has caused the culture to reject propagation of the gospel or morality
through laws or institutional Christianity.

...a third reason that Murray gives for why post-Christendom
is to be preferred to Christendom
is theological in nature.
Under Christendom, [statsmakt-kirkelighet]

everyone was "Christian" virtually by birth.
This led to the death of mission
and the maintenance mode of the church.
With Christendom's demise, the church by necessity must take up mission again.
This, however, is the biblical model of the church.

....it produced nominalism. [statsgaranti]

Murray asserts that the church must approach mission as Christ did,
from the margins of society -- ministering to the margins of society.

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Stuart Murray Williams - Based in Bristol uk

"For jeg vet at når jeg har gått bort,
vil glupske ulver trenge inn blant dere, og de skåner ikke flokken.
Ja, blant deres egne skal det stå fram menn som farer med falsk lære
for å få dratt disiplene med seg. Våk derfor ..."

(Paulus, Ap.gj 20)