The Church Should Never Be Democratic!

Prologue

Global Capitalist Democracy – some see it as the 'The New World Order': Some of the things we hold in high regard even as a world society can sometimes dissipate like a light night mist on the slightest hint of the emergent rays of a new dawn. The body of Christ is a 'Royal Priesthood' – a fellowship of priestly kings, each member with a specific role and Christ as the King of kings. This order does not claim equality; the body of Christ has a hand, an ear, an eye and so on; each extremely vital, but not equal for they all play different roles. There is no room for the rule of the majority or popular vote or the survival of the stronger, without one part there's incompleteness. I think 'specialization' is the best term to explain 'Important but not equal'. As governments crumble in Africa, the Arab world, in Eastern Europe and in Cuba and as we await a looming change in North Korea and Iran, all happening two decades after the fall of the of Soviet Union, it is my hope that emerging Asian giants will earnestly take up their counter balancing role. 

In this essay, I offer a personal critique of democracy, its relevance now and in the future, as a civic structure but especially as a system of church governance. This is twelve part series as outlined below:

1.      

Democratic Space: Empty Space – Introduction into the controversial issues

2.       The American Dream - a strive for the ideal

3.       Human Rights and Freedoms as Prior Rights

4.       The Platonic Ideal – The Aristocracy of Plato's 'Just City'

5.       The True Leader – The Philosopher King

6.       The Making of the King – Building the true Leader

7.       To be Human is to be in Error: Imperfect Systems

8.       System Degeneration: Lessons from the past

9.       The 20^th Century – The Anxiety Age

10.   The Vatican: from an Infantile Democracy to a Matured Aristocracy

11.   Presbyters and Baptists - Democratic Traces

12.   Towards an Open Church - what then should the church be:

 

I hope that you will have a great time reading this, as good a time as I had writing it. Let it all be to the glory of our Lord and Saviour – Jesus Christ.

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