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Invitation to the Mission of Kingdom Humanity

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A Missional Call towards the Witness of our Common Humanity in Christ
A Trumpet Call

“I will build my church” – these words of the Lord are found in Matt. 16:18, they have sustained church through generations and human conditions. History proves to us that the Lord is indeed actively and progressively building His church. The Spirit of Christ revealed to the apostle Paul that church must be built to the point where the stains, wrinkles, and blemishes of the world (worldliness or the influence of the surrounding culture) are completely removed from her (Eph. 5:27), and until she reaches full maturity or completion in the spectrum of the Nature of Christ (Eph. 4:11-13). The apostle Peter declared that the Lord cannot return until God’s restoration plan for the church has been fully realized, in line with prophecy of scripture (Acts 3:19-21). Therefore, every generation must grapple with this apostolic mission of building towards maturity in Christ. This requires that in each season, church discerns and quantifies dimensions of life that constitute spiritual maturity in Christ. For there is a time for everything and a season for every activity; and the wise heart knows the proper time & procedure (Eccl. 3:1 & 8:6).

Kingdom Humanity represents a quantum and a dimension of the life of Christ that is coming to church in this season.

What is Kingdom Humanity?

Kingdom Humanity is the prophetic conviction that God is adorning (beautifying and clothing) church with the Humanity of Christ.

The qualities and attributes of the Nature of Christ are coming upon the church, to transform, clothe and beautify her with a humanity (quality of life) that can only be attained by faith in Christ. Church is being moved from a culture-based to a faith-based humanity.

  • Kingdom Humanity defines a frame of existence in which Christ is the image of Humanity.
  • Kingdom Humanity is the Arrangement of Human Life in Christ.
  • Kingdom Humanity is a missional call towards the practice of a faith-based (as opposed to a culture-based) humanity.

Kingdom Humanity – Framework of Faith

Kingdom Humanity brings a new and an empowering apostolic framework that moves the church beyond the limitations of “ceremonial Christianity” (the Christianity of gathering) to a broader, practice-based, and existential Christianity. The most powerful thing about the Christian faith is not the gathering – it is the existential meaning of our belief system. The big question of the faith is this: how does our belief system organize human existence? The two fundamental laws of the Kingdom of God seek to address this issue: “love the Lord God with all your heart” is the law of devotion. “Love your neighbor as yourself” is the law of human existence, it is the law of citizenship.

Kingdom Humanity presents a revelation from the Lord that defines how believers must express their faith for existential wellbeing (or shalom). The Lord is saying to us that we must practice our faith through three spheres of life: these are spheres of Devotion, Personal Humanity and Citizenship.

  1. The practice of Devotion – a practice of priesthood in the Holy Spirit and through devotion of our heart before God.
  2. The practice of Personal Humanity – humanization (incarnation) of the Nature of Christ through the cycle of spiritual conviction and personal transformation.
  3. The practice of Citizenship – practice of God’s righteous administration in the Spaces of Life that we inhabit (spaces of family, neighborhoods, schools, workplace, cities and nations etc.).

Devotion is the foundation of our faith. We are called to be priests unto God, to honor and worship Him with our hearts and lives. Just like Old Covenant priests offered sacrifices to God on a physical altar, so are we called to be a living sacrifice that presents a sweet aroma to God. The primary law of the Kingdom of God is that we must love God with all our hearts. The believer is called to exist in a state of perpetual devotion before God, through a continuous practice of disciplines of the faith – i.e. worship, prayer, devotion to Scripture etc.

Personal Humanity means that God wants to reach out to our hearts in order to transform our characters and lives. We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us. The life we live in the body, we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us (Gal. 2:20). Our purpose, as well as our mission, is to become the incarnation of Christ in the earth. We give Him a demographic profile through our lives. We must let Him live through us, through the process and cycle of spiritual conviction, personal transformation and obedience.

God wants to reach out and touch our personal humanity. The following components make up the anatomy of our Personal Humanity, and they are the battlefield between Light and Darkness:

Personal Humanity Graphic (please click on the image for enhanced view):

Citizenship means that we are inhabitants of Spaces of Life. The Bible describes us as citizens and fellow-citizens (Eph. 2:19). The word “citizen” describes an inhabitant of a town – an inhabitant of a Space of Life. We were created to inhabit Spaces of Life (Acts 17:26). These are spaces of family, neighborhoods, schools, businesses, workplaces, cities, nations etc. Not only must we inhabit these Spaces of Life, but we must also engage them through a citizenship that comes from Christ (Phil. 3:20). We must bring the administration of God to the Spaces of Life in which God has given us influence (Ps. 115:16, Ps. 8:6). In this season, the Lord is activating the exhortation of Paul to the Philippians: “Above all, you must live as citizens of heaven, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. Then, whether I come and see you again or only hear about you, I will know that you are standing side by side, fighting together for the faith, which is the Good News” (Phil. 1:27, NLT).

The practice of citizenship means that we must engage the following missional imperatives within our Spaces of Life (and these imperatives constitute the “gospel of Kingdom Citizenship”):

  • Advocate: calling for the righteousness of God in order to shift culture in the Spaces of Life (2 Pet. 2:5).
  • Reform:  establishing changes to bring the Spaces of Life to a place of harmony with the Kingdom of God (Luke 3:4-6).
  • Reconcile: facilitating reconciliation of hostile elements within the Spaces of Life to bring about the peace (shalom) of God (2 Cor. 5:15-21).
  • Develop: Engaging a process of progressive building to improve the quality of life in the Spaces of Life (Isa. 61:1-6).

The Citizenship Gospel Graphic (please click on the image for enhanced view):

Kingdom Humanity represents a shift from a ceremonial, devotional Christianity, to a Christianity of practice of humanity through the Nature of Christ. The highlight of our faith in Christ is not that we gather on Sunday, it is that we gather to celebrate and refine our on-going practice of a faith-based humanity in the world.

These three spheres, platforms and expressions of faith bring a holistic witness to the world:

  1. Devotion – brings the witness of the Lordship of Christ to the world.
  2. Personal Humanity – brings the witness of Humanity of Christ to the world.
  3. Citizenship – brings the witness of Administration of God to the world.

The three spheres represent a holistic encounter with the Kingdom of God…

  1. Devotion – the Kingdom of God comes to the human heart (we internalize Christ and the Kingdom).
  2. Personal Humanity – the Kingdom of God comes to our Personal Life (we personify Christ and the Kingdom).
  3. Citizenship – the Kingdom of God comes to the Spaces of Life (we use principles of Christ to inhabit Spaces of Life, to establish the Kingdom of God).

And these three spheres are the channels through which Scriptures speak to us. They constitute the very framework of the Word of God to man:

  1. Devotion – the scriptures address our devotional life towards God: We must worship the One true God.
  2. Personal Humanity – the scriptures address our mindset, character and behavior: We must pursue a life of holiness.
  3. Citizenship – the scriptures speak into how we are to inhabit and share Spaces of Life together with our fellow-citizens: We are to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Kingdom Humanity outline table (please click on the image for enhanced view):

Kingdom Humanity broadens the scope of kingdom mission in the church by inviting ordinary believers to use their day-to-day affairs of life in their domestic spaces, as platforms for kingdom advance and of witnessing to the world. This takes kingdom mission back to the immediacy of our domestic, daily lives. It removes arbitrariness and meaninglessness in our daily routines, and it brings a new sense of purpose, prophetic destiny and apostolic mission to the ordinary believer. It elevates us to becoming servants of the Lord through the process of our daily life. In other words, Kingdom Humanity fulfils our hope towards the “Day of the Saints”.

Scriptures

Every dimension of revelation and understanding in the Kingdom of God must be founded and anchored in the Word of God. The Greek word, “logos”, is what we translate as “the Word (of God)” in our English bibles. Logos is defined as reasoning, spoken thought, intelligence, discourse, rationality, computation etc. The Word is the Person of Christ. He is the framework of our thought and reasoning. And the job of the Holy Spirit is to reveal the Word (Christ) to us; it is to reveal correct thought processes in God. Through the process of revelation, we form doctrine, a mechanism of instruction and definition of thought processes in God.

Let us consider some scriptures that the Holy Spirit is using to frame the revelation of Kingdom Humanity.

Revelation 21:2

Rev 21:2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. NKJV

The first image of Revelation 21:2

The apostle John refers to two images in this scripture. Firstly, John sees the vision of the city. This is not the first time that we see the prophetic image of the city being used in the scriptures. The Bible generally refers to “Mt. Zion, the city of God”. The Book of Hebrews associates Mt. Zion with the church of Jesus Christ.

Heb 12:22-24

22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. NIV

According to apostle Paul’s teachings, “heavenly Jerusalem is our mother”:

Gal 4:26-27

26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” NIV

Heavenly Jerusalem is our mother – she is the overarching principle giving rise to the very establishment of the church of Jesus Christ. We are established upon the premise that God does not want a Mt. Sinai, legalistic people who are bound by law. He wants a people who have been saved from sin to become God’s righteousness in Christ. God wants a people who will become a “city of heaven” on earth.

Jesus defines us as a city built on a hill:

Matt 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. NIV

The metaphor of the city is powerful! Throughout human history, cities have always represented civilizations. The city of God therefore speaks of a human civilization – one that is not established through principles of humanism, but one that is established through the Nature of Christ. In other words, Kingdom Humanity is a proclamation of the vision of church as a civilization of God!

The second image of Revelation 21:2

John says that the city was prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Again, the idea of a bride is not being used for the first time in the Book of Revelation. The scriptures declare church to be the Bride of Christ (Eph. 5:27, 2 Cor. 11:2). The parable of 10 virgins equally points to the idea of the bride waiting for the groom (Matt. 25:1-13). John says that the bride was prepared and made ready (adorned) to receive her husband. The word “adorned” is taken from the Greek word “kosmeo”, which is related to the word “kosmos”. This word means the ff., “to put in proper order, to set in order, orderly arrangement, decoration”. The city of God; the civilization of Christ defines a church that has gone through the process of spiritual transformation and beautification – the process of adopting arrangements of life that originate from the Nature of Christ.

Paul outlines the apostolic vision of removing spots, wrinkles, and blemishes from the church: Eph 5:27 that He must present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. NKJV

As long as church is still plagued by spots, wrinkles and blemishes of the world, she misses out on becoming a glorious, global community that represents the civilization of God in the earth.

Ephesians 4:22-24

Eph 4:22-24

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. NIV

Eph 4:22-24

And he has taught you to let go of the lifestyle of the ancient man, the old self-life, which was corrupted by sinful and deceitful desires that spring from delusions. Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you. And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him! For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness. TPT

Eph 4:22-24

…and then take on an entirely new way of life — a God-fashioned life, 23 a life renewed from the inside 24 and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you. THE MESSAGE

The word that Paul uses to speak about “the old self vs. the new self”, is the Greek word “anthropos” (there is the old and the new anthropos). From anthropos, we get the English word anthropology, which defines the study of humanity. The word “anthropos” means humanity. The idea is that we must put off the old humanity because it has been corrupted by sin. And we must put on a new humanity which has been recreated in Christ. The apostolic vision of salvation is not simply a cessation of sinful life. Rather, it is a transformation of our humanity, a formation of a new humanity (nature and quality of life) in Christ. If we are in Christ, then we are a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17), and we are a new humanity (Eph. 2:15). Christ lives in us. We are now His incarnation here on earth. We use our lives to humanize the Nature of Christ that comes to us by faith and through the agency of the Holy Spirit. Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. NIV

Just like there were people with skills to make the garments of the priests in the Old Testament, so is Christ mobilizing gifts in the church – people who will have the skill to not only form the “garment of Christ” (the Humanity of Christ) through doctrine, but who will also be able to help her put on the same garment.

Ex 28:1-5

“Have Aaron your brother brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, so they may serve me as priests. 2 Make sacred garments for your brother Aaron, to give him dignity and honor. 3 Tell all the skilled men to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest. 4 These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so they may serve me as priests. 5 Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen. NIV

Lev 8:5-9

5 Moses said to the assembly, “This is what the Lord has commanded to be done.” 6 Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. 7 He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him. He also tied the ephod to him by its skillfully woven waistband; so it was fastened on him. 8 He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece. 9 Then he placed the turban on Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the sacred diadem, on the front of it, as the Lord commanded Moses.. NIV

Kingdom Humanity Rollout Process

Kingdom Humanity Rollout Process (please click on the image for enhanced view):

The Invitation

This is a call and an invitation to you – disciple of Christ – to participate in this global mission of practicing and witnessing about the Humanity of Christ in the earth. This practice will take place through the three spheres of our lives – Devotion, Personal Humanity and Citizenship.

This is not an invitation to a “gathering” or to added “ministry activity”. This is an invitation for you to convert your life into a platform of expressing the Humanity of Christ upon the earth.

Spheres of Practice

Sphere 1: Devotion: we engage this sphere as priests through the agency of the human heart. It represents priestly practice of our devotion before God by the power of the Holy Spirit. The goal is to witness about the Lordship of Christ. (Devotion empowers us to internalize Christ and His Kingdom).

Sphere 2: Personal Humanity: we engage this sphere as human beings through the agency of our character. The sphere represents the practice of Humanity of Christ through the cycle of spiritual conviction and personal transformation. The goal is to witness about the Humanity of Christ. (Personal Humanity empowers us to personify Christ and His Kingdom).

Sphere 3: Citizenship: we engage this sphere through the agency of our inhabitation in various Spaces of Life. The sphere represents the practice of God’s righteous administration in Spaces of Life. The goal is to administer spatial transformation and to witness about the administration of God. (Citizenship empowers us to domesticate Christ and His Kingdom).

Process of Engagement

We will create spaces and sessions of reflection, testimony, and impartation:

Process of Engagement graphic (please click on the image for enhanced view):

Kingdom Humanity Reflection Questions

Devotion Reflection

  1. What are some encounters that I’ve experienced recently? And what do I feel may have been the Lord’s objective behind these?
  2. What areas of conviction & illumination have I gone through & how have they improved my faith and humanity?
  3. What processes & actions must I engage to secure my recent spiritual experiences?

Personal Humanity Reflection

  1. What areas of my life remain unresolved & vulnerable due to past or present life experiences?

  2. What areas of my character is the Lord touching & transforming?

  3. What processes & actions must I engage to bring to resolution the work of the Lord in my character & humanity? (What prayers must I offer to God? Who must I talk to? What convictions must I embrace in my heart? And what new forms of being must I engage?)

Citizenship Reflection

  1. Which Spaces of Life am I currently inhabiting?

  2. What levels of influence do I have in my Spaces of Life?

  3. What is the nature of relationship between my Spaces of Life and their inhabitants – is it correct and just?

  4. What is the nature of relationship between inhabitants in my Spaces of Life? Does it reflect the law of kingdom citizenship, of “loving your neighbor as yourself”?

  5. What structural reforms do my Spaces of Life require in order to be brought to the submission of Christ?

  6.  How must I show up in my Spaces of Life to represent the Lord better?

  7. Who are the role players that I must engage to effect change in my Spaces of Life?

Practical Considerations

  • To participate in this kingdom mission, please provide your details by filling and submitting the online Kingdom Humanity Mission Form (link is provided below).
  • You will receive resources in the form of articles, podcasts, and videos to equip you in this journey of practicing the Humanity of Christ in the earth.
  • You will also be invited to periodic meetings of reflection, testimony and equipping as we journey together in the mission of Kingdom Humanity.
  • Please follow this link if you wish to download this invitation as a PDF: Invitation to the Mission of Kingdom Humanity PDF.

Kingdom Humanity Mission Form

Please fill this online form to participate in the mission: Kingdom Humanity Mission Form.

You may reach out to us via email @ admin@kingdomhumanity.com for any queries.

Financial Contributions

Kingdom Humanity is the mission that is mobilizing the saints to open their hearts and lives in a season when God is adorning the church with the Humanity of Christ. This mission is being stewarded by Kingdom Humanity Fellowship. You are invited and encouraged to give your faith-filled and voluntary contributions towards the mission. This will go a long way in honoring and aiding the work. You can give your offering once-off or on a continuous basis.

Banking Details

Please find banking details below:

Acc. Name: Kingdom Humanity Fellowship NPC

Bank: First National Bank (FNB)

Acc. No. 63 000 259 853

Account Type: Gold Business Acc.

Branch code: 250 655

Swift Code: FIRNZAJJ

Reference: Name & Surname – The Mission

Email Proof of Contribution: admin@kingdomhumanity.com.

About Kingdom Humanity Fellowship

Kingdom Humanity Fellowship is the stewardship structure and platform of the Kingdom Humanity Mission.

The following persons constitute the Visionary Team of KHF:

  1. Robert Ntuli – Visionary Leader (LivingStones Agency, DBN)
  2. Zamo Ntuli (LivingStones Agency, DBN)
  3. Stan Phipps (Glenridge Church, DBN)
  4. Richard Mun-Gavin (Anthem Church, DBN)
  5. Peter Watt ((3C) Church, DBN)
  6. Andile Mafa (LivingStones Agency, DBN)

The administration base of Kingdom Humanity Fellowship is in Durban, South Africa.

Our contact details:

Email: admin@kingdomhumanity.com

Phone: +27 31 301 7104

Website / Blog: www.kingdomhumanity.com

Facebook Page: @kingdomhumanityfellowship

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/robert-ntuli

By Robert Ntuli

Visionary, Kingdom Humanity Fellowship

Robert Ntuli © 2023 – All Rights Reserved

An Invitation to Kingdom Humanity Fellowship Gatherings – September 2022

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Greetings Fellow Leaders and Disciples,

I am excited to extend to you this invite of the upcoming meetings of Kingdom Humanity Fellowship.

Kingdom Humanity Fellowship is a relational platform for equipping churches and believers in Kingdom Humanity.

Kingdom Humanity is the Arrangement of Human Life in Christ. This Kingdom Arrangement stands in hostility, alongside the Arrangement of this world. Kingdom Humanity is the revelation that in Christ, we have a common faith that translates to a common Humanity (in the same way that Christ is the confluence of Word and flesh, of Divinity and Humanity). It is the revelation that Church is beyond just a devotional Community but represents renewal of Humanity through Christ – the firstborn of creation. Kingdom Humanity is a call to the pursuit of a faith-based Humanity. It is the new, bold expression of our faith in Christ through the three spheres of our created being: i.e. (a) spirituality (as priests living a devotional life unto God), (b) humanness (as human beings expressing Christ through our character & conduct), and (c) citizenship (as spatial beings engaged in spatial spirituality by bringing the righteousness of God to the Spaces of Life around around us).

Following upon the great work of our gatherings in the month of May this year, we have the following meetings lined up in the month of September:

1. Leadership Quarry

Church finds herself in between seasons. She’s emerging out of the trauma and “loss” of the pandemic & must get ready to press into the newness and inheritance of the next season. This necessitates for church leaders (including marketplace leaders who are placed by God in different spheres and various Kingdom vocations) to go through spiritual refreshing & formation under the leadership of Christ (“our Quarry”), who calls to form, prepare & commission us to the next season (Matt. 4:19). This is an invitation for you to gather alongside other kingdom leaders as we all allow Christ to refresh and reactivate our Callings.

Meeting Details:

Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: Anthem Church

Address: 37 Mackeurtan Ave, Durban North, 4051 (South Africa)

2. Kingdom Citizenship Seminar

Kingdom Humanity is the revelation and the Call for the Church to step into a new bold expression of our Salvation in Christ through the three spheres of our created being: spirituality (or devotion), humanness & citizenship. Kingdom Citizenship is the practice of faith & the establishment of righteousness in Spaces of Life. Just as the first Adam expressed spirituality within a Space of Life (“the Garden”),  so are those in Christ (the second Adam) being called to rebuild, restore & renew Spaces of Life (Isa. 61:4). This marks a movement closer to apostle Paul’s teachings about our citizenship in Christ (Phil. 3:20, Phil. 1:27, Eph. 2:19).

Meeting Details:

Date: Thursday, 22 September 2022

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: Anthem Church

Address: 37 Mackeurtan Ave, Durban North, 4051 (South Africa)

3. Celebrate Kingdom Humanity

This is going to be a prophetic act of gathering churches for the purpose of proclaiming & celebrating the Church as God’s movement of renewal of humanity through Christ. It is born out of the recognition of the “decaying” of humanity in the world. It is a call to a deeper prophetic consciousness of our true inheritance in Christ – a righteous humanity, and not simply a weekly gathering.

Meeting Details:

Date: Sunday, 25 September 2022

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: Glenridge Church

Address: 65 Masabalala Yengwa Ave, Durban, 4001 (South Africa)


Live Stream


These meetings will also be streamed live. For details of the live stream, please email admin@kingdomhumanity.com. 

We look forward to fellowshipping and engaging with you as we all sit under the impartation of the Lord.


Yours sincerely,

Robert Ntuli

Visionary – Kingdom Humanity Fellowship (with Visionary Team)

www.kingdomhumanity.com

The State of the Kingdom Audios

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Kingdom Humanity Fellowship recently hosted meetings in the city of Durban, South Africa. These were the State of the Kingdom Assembly (on Sunday 1 May 22) and the Leadership Quarry (on Monday 2 May 22). The meetings were designed to be a place of gathering for the Body of Christ, around the common burden of the Kingdom of God. Please find audio links below in order to have access to what was delivered. We will be hosting more of these kinds of meetings in the future. You may contact us at admin@kingdomhumanity.com if you wish to be informed about future meetings.

The Inaugural State of the Kingdom Assembly (Sunday, 1 May 22)

The Inaugural State of the Kingdom Assembly by Robert Ntuli

Leadership Quarry Part 1 (Monday, 2 May 22)

Leadership Quarry Part 1 by Robert Ntuli

Leadership Quarry Part 2 (Monday, 2 May 22)

Leadership Quarry Part 2 by Stan Phipps

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Visionary, Kingdom Humanity Fellowship

Invitation: The State of the Kingdom Assembly

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Greetings Friends, Fellow Believers and Leaders,

Robert Ntuli

Kingdom Humanity Fellowship invites you to the following upcoming meetings… 

1) The inaugural State of the Kingdom Assembly (Sunday 1st May @ 18h30, Glenridge Church). 

2)  The Leadership Quarry (Monday 2nd May @ 09h00, Glenridge Church). 

We live in times of fragility in our world order – the groaning of creation is seen through pandemics, wars, inequality, climate change, collapse of family, immorality etc. The present-day mechanism of organizing humanity – the Republic – is increasingly challenged in bringing shalom (wellbeing, peace & prosperity) to establish human order. 

In all of this, we thank God for His Son Jesus Christ, who went to the Cross, not to simply deliver a weekly meeting (for the Law of Moses already established this), but to empower us to become and to bring the Kingdom of God to our spaces – God’s rulership, a righteous human order founded in Christ. Administration of the Kingdom of God is the foundational mission of the Church, according to Matt. 16:18&19. Church must therefore concern herself with the question, what does the coming of the Kingdom look like in a human space? 

This inaugural State of the Kingdom Assembly will be a time for pastors and believers to reflect, engage and celebrate our common and universal Kingdom burden as the Church of Jesus Christ. 

The Leadership Quarry will be a gathering for facilitating Renewal of our Kingdom Callings. It is designed for pastors and marketplace leaders (ie. Kingdom Professionals, Christian Community Activists and Entrepreneurs) who carry a burden to not simply “do ordinary work”, but to bring Kingdom Influence through their vocations. We will take time to teach on Kingdom Leadership and to engage in prophetic ministry in order to exhort and strengthen one another as ministers in God’s mission field.

These meetings will be hosted by Kingdom Humanity Fellowship – an apostolic platform for equipping Churches & Believers (Kingdom Citizens) toward a human order founded in Christ . 

Both these meetings will take place at Glenridge Church, 65 Masabalala Yengwa Ave, Durban (on top of Durban Station), and they will also be streamed live for our international friends. Please see details below:

Zoom details:

You can follow the links, register and you will receive the Zoom IDs of the meeting via email.

The Inaugural State of the Kingdom Assembly:
May 1, 2022 06:30 PM Johannesburg
Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpceGgqjkpHt3EUAcUuEXUYRXaJhN7x2Sf

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Leadership Quarry:
May 2, 2022 09:00 AM Johannesburg
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdeqorT4qH9IToRnUl_IFOM2DJr8h7Kse

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Facebook live stream:

These meetings will also be streamed live on Facebook through the Kingdom Humanity page, @kingdomhumanityfellowship.

The Visionary Team of Kingdom Humanity Fellowship looks forward to host you on the 1st and 2nd of May. 

Please email us at admin@kingdomhumanity.com for more details.

Robert Ntuli 

Visionary, 

Kingdom Humanity Fellowship

Kingdom Humanity: From Meetings to Arrangements

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Sustainable Kingdom Transformation in the world will not be produced by an arbitrary people who confess Jesus as Lord, but by a Community of Disciples of Jesus who willingly & collectively allow the Lord to establish a Kosmos out of them – an Arrangement of Human Life in Christ. The world notices arrangements, not arbitrary groups. And God creates arrangements (kosmos), not arbitrary life. In the world of arrangements, what matters is not numbers but a Way of Life. This is why Noah & his small family became a formidable force. The phrase, “sin entered the world” (in Rom. 5:12) implies that sin did not only corrupt the human heart, but also arrangements of life. A Church built on the premise of Arrangement of Life in Christ will not be identified according to common congregational membership but according to common Humanity in Christ. All this means that the believer must embrace the Kingdom Mission as an existential reality, in collaboration with fellow believers, & not simply as a program & an activity. It also means that pastors have to learn to not only shepherd people, but to administer arrangements of life out of people. Jesus is coming for a “Bride that is adorned” (a Kosmos). Becoming a kosmos (or an Arrangement of Life) in a fractured & chaotic world, is the ultimate apostolic mission of the Church (Rev. 21)!

Reflections on the Meaning of Freedom

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Rob pic - website - first optionIn the history of mankind, we have seen this futility, where oppressive authorities fight to maintain power & inequality, and commoners fight for humanistic freedom – freedom from oppression but freedom to self-rule. And so not only has humanity dealt with systems of injustice, but since everything humanistic suffers from decay, like grass that withers over time, revolutions have themselves tended to become corrupted. A revolution is fundamentally flawed when it is inspired by a craving for the privileged condition of the oppressor. Such a craving has an underlying acknowledgement of the necessity to oppress, in order to achieve the same “privileged” condition of prosperity, as that of the oppressor. And such a craving therefore renders a revolution useless in time. For this reason, we’ve seen that passionate anger against injustice does not always make one a true advocate and ambassador of justice. Anger against unfairness must not always be equated to moral uprightness. In a day if injustice we may need angry activists, but in a day of freedom, we need morally upright visionaries. Precisely because of selfishness and injustice inherent in us, we can fight injustice against us. The wisdom of the Book of Psalms becomes a guiding moral compass in such a conflicted state. In Psalm 37:1-3 it states, “never envy the wicked! Soon they fade away like grass and disappear. Trust in the Lord instead. Be kind and good to others; then you will live safely here in the land and prosper, feeding in safety”. That is, true prosperity is not only achieved through individualistic industriousness, but also by being kind to your fellow citizens – not only referring to personal kindness, but also systemic kindness. For truly, systemically evil and corrupt societies do not last, they eventually “fade away like grass”, just as the psalmist says. And in Ps 141:4 it states the same cry, “do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies”. Revolutions can therefore find themselves led by the most selfish and unjust of people, who simply have energy that is born out of anger. A true revolution must imagine and envision a new reality, one better than the “privileged conditions” of the oppressor. In other words, the true concept of “privilege” does not exist, as long as it is defined by the conditions or successes of the oppressor. Envisioning a new reality can sometimes lead to what looks like a form of temporary “material reversal” of one’s well-being, to achieve real Collective Well-being. This is because in the System of Creation, there is no well-being, except in the Collective. Biblically, this is what is implied in the word equity (that big word “justice” or righteousness), not meaning parity. This is exactly what Christ sought to achieve – He died in order to give life to mankind; He became sin in order to redeem us sinners, and to make us the righteousness of God, that is, to improve our human condition. He who was the only Son died in order to produce many sons. He took His privilege and extended it to the many. In this sense, the nations of the South (or the Global South) cannot base their model of prosperity upon the nations of the North (the Global North), simply because Global Humanity is yet to see a model of human prosperity that is free from oppression, blood guilt and colonialism. Even economic theories, models and graphs miss this nuance, of economic prosperity that is achieved fundamentally on the backs of slaves, and through discrimination and racism. Even the “American dream” is a construct of unjust gain, its equation is not without the component of slavery and racism. The disadvantage of humanity is that this is all we’ve seen in modern history, and this is all we know. This is the model of success that dominates our history books. So, for Africa to be exactly like Europe (or North America), Africa would have to create the same conditions that facilitated Europe’s and North America’s growth and development. We would have to start the process all over again, of taking slaves from Europe and North America across the ocean (or perhaps now by airplanes) back to Africa, to build our industries to what economists call “economic growth”. Does the African politician see this futility? Does he or she imagine a different model of development that achieves prosperity without violating mankind? Has this progressed from an idealistic wish to a conceptual reality that can become a real “household” of nations? Do African economists see this alternative reality? Does the economic equation work out, in the absence of discrimination and corruption? Or does it land us at the same position of greed as that of colonialists and oppressors, where we simply get “our turn to eat”? The Global South has a prophetic opportunity to establish a model of human prosperity that is free from blood guilt, injustice, racism and slavery. And if such a reality is achieved, not only will it usher in a new era of human well-being and prosperity in the Global South, it will also free the Global North from the bondage of its historical models of human existence. Essentially, this would usher in a new era of Global Humanity, presenting future generations with new platforms of scholarship. For this to be a reality, the Global South must begin to develop its youthful populations into a generation of scholars and prophets who will begin to imagine a better Human Arrangement and a better Social Contract. In other words, the new activist must move beyond the culture of street protest or of “lodging complaints”, he or she must possess the power to re-imagine a new vision, to communicate the vision and to mobilize around and towards the vision (Hab. 2:2-3). The new activist must possess the power to conceive a vision beyond a Class Struggle, a vision that seeks to liberate Global Humanity from a state of conflict with itself. It is for this reason that instead of staging a protest in Rome and against Caesar, as was the wish of his closest disciples (Acts 1:6), Christ went to die at the Cross, to establish a “new and a better way” of life (Heb. 10:19-22), not for a particular Class or People-Group, but for Global Humanity, including Caesar and Rome. If we choose to carry our own Cross to follow Him, we are embracing the same spirit, attitude and vision for Global Humanity. Furthermore, this process of re-imagining a better Human Arrangement must be triggered by a realization that in the abundance of scientific knowledge and theories of human prosperity, we have a drought and a deficit when it comes to concepts of human prosperity that are devoid of injustice. And so, in the continuum of time, where revolutions are inspired by the privileged conditions of oppressors, oppressive authorities and humanistic Freedom Projects of commoners become the two sides of the same darkness. When we remove the gap of time, and marry the past with the future, we see the same thing, the exact same thing. The only time humanity breaks this chain of political futility is when we fight to be free from oppression, in order to be subjects to Christ our Lord – our Kurios – the Supreme Eternal Authority from whom all Political Systems originate and to whom these systems must submit (Col. 1:16, 1 Tim. 6:15, Rev. 19:16). By the phrase, “a people who are subjects of Christ”, we are defining a citizenship developed out of reverence for God, founded on moral uprightness and geared towards Collective Well-Being – the idea that in my pursuit of personal well-being, I will not harm you. Whenever the objective and the quest for freedom is self-rule, then that Freedom Project is already corrupted. Our quest for freedom, must be motivated by a desire to be subjects of Christ. Freedom as a definition of self-rule is an anomaly in the System of Creation (or in the Kingdom of God). Try it. Such a thing simply does not exist. It is what the fallen angel, Satan, offered mankind in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-6). It is the very reason we are where we are. And so when a people are engaged in a Freedom Project, they must define a set of new and better moral rules they want to subject themselves to, if they don’t, corruption becomes the inevitable outcome, or put differently, they’ll simply reinvent the conditions of their oppressor, if not worse. In other words, there is nothing as dangerous as seeking freedom without a moral foundation. A key lesson in the Book of Exodus – is that a people are delivered from a system of oppression, only to be subjected to another system, a system of moral laws based on reverence for God, moral uprightness and on the ideal of Collective Well-being. In that system, good citizenship is based on what you do or do not do to your neighbor, not on how well you take care of yourself. Statements like, “you shall not steal, kill or covet…”, imply a system of citizenship preoccupied with the well-being of the one next to you, your fellow citizen. In this order of citizenship, not only am I given personal liberty, but I am also bound by an obligation towards the wellbeing of my fellow citizens. And as we see in the Book of Exodus, when the freed slaves refuse this new order, corruption and chaos become the inevitable outcome. Oppression must therefore be defined as a denial from realizing a dream of a better human arrangement based on the imperative for moral uprightness and collective well-being. Where the fight against oppression is understood to be a quest to be the same as the oppressor, then it is already tainted with elements of corruption, only time will tell. Without realizing it, in such a “revolutionary project”, we’ve taken the privileged but corrupted condition of the oppressor, and have made it our inspiration and vision. In such a process, we are “walking in the counsel of the wicked, we are standing in the way of sinners, and are sitting in the seat of mockers” and do not realize that “better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous” (Ps. 37:16-17).  The nuance behind Paul’s instruction to the slaves, to (continue to) serve their masters, but now “as unto the Lord” (see Eph. 6:5-9 and Col. 3:22-4:1), is that in the process of being liberated by Christ, we are saved from craving the corrupted privilege of our oppressor, essentially sharing in his blood guilt (and or to go up the “ladder” or to take the only options that the corrupt system offers us, should we wish to be rich). We are empowered to “subversively”  influence the condition of the master’s life by offering our freewill service. Here we are no longer a slave to a man, but we are slaves to Christ, and have the power to influence the master’s heart by the power of our unconditional and unmerited love towards him. We break the chain of causality in that the earthly master no longer has power to shape our will, attitude and emotions. Our actions can no longer be attributed to the input factors of the earthly master. In the same way, Paul’s instructions to earthly masters (or modern day owners of Capital), to treat their slaves well and beyond the definitions of the legal code of the system of the day (whatever that looks like for our employees, house maids etc. in modern day systems) is because each time the master treats his slave well (who is essentially a fellow human), and with justice and generosity, he regains his own humanity, godliness and peace. And each time he does the contrary, he loses his own humanity, godliness and peace. So in reality, the master does not have “authority” over his slaves, rather, he is a slave unto his own greed. For this reason, those who have riches and power have truly lived the most troubled lives, and have tended to lack in the fundamentals of life like peace, family, trust etc. Nothing built out of blood guilt, oppression and injustice is sustainable and peaceful. In other words, sometimes we are oppressed, not by external forces, but by our own greed that our oppressors resemble before us. We see in them who we are internally. It is that craving to be like our oppressor, that we sometimes confuse with the idea of revolution. 

Robert Ntuli

Pastor – LivingStones Agency

Visionary Leader – Kingdom Humanity Fellowship

Durban, South Africa

Resources

Please follow the links below to access other resources relevant to the current pandemic…

  1. “I can’t breathe”: How can Church deconstruct Racism?
  2. Mr President: We shall err on the side of Caution
  3. On the Issue of Essentiality of Church
  4. The Lockdown Debate and the Issue of the Vantage Point
  5. The Doctrine of Suffering – Part 1
  6. The Doctrine of Suffering – Part 2
  7. Covid-19: A Prophetic characterization of the current pandemic (part 1)
  8. Covid-19: A prophetic characterization of the current pandemic (part 2)
  9. Restating the foundations of the New Covenant
  10. Drivers for effective life in the current season of the pandemic
  11. Doing church in the crisis of coronavirus
  12. Note: if you wish to listen to the podcast I referred to earlier in this article, on the story of my Personal Salvation and journey of Transformation, please follow the link A conversation with Ps Robert Ntuli.

Our first Kingdom Humanity Gathering for 2020!

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Habakkuk 2:2 Then the lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others.
3 This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.

The first Kingdom Humanity Gathering for 2020 took off in high spirits, this Thursday.

Brothers & Sisters from different Churches stood in fellowship and dived into scripture together, to possess our joint inheritance of God’s Wisdom for our progressive movement from the Humanity of the World…to the Humanity of Christ!

Join us again for our next Gathering with Brothers & Sisters in the City.

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