Even money, “dedicated” to the Lord becomes an important factor in Christ’s development of His spiritual kingdom. Anything which can, or can be made to have, a spiritual purpose can be seen to be part of Christ’s spiritual Kingdom. When Christ said, “My kingdom is not of this world“, He had no more thought of excluding physical things and political and social-family relationships than when He said to His disciples “ye are not of this world” (the Greek phrase is identical).

Roy Blackwood, The King and His Kingdom, 10.

Few would go so far as to assert that correct views on Church Government are essential to salvation, and yet it is a subject whose importance it were folly to attempt to depreciate.

The Apostolic Church: Which Is It? by Thomas Witherow in Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government, 37.

Every Divine truth is important, though it may be that all Divine truths are not of equal importance. The simplest statement of the Bible is a matter of more concern to an immortal being than the most sublime sentiment of mere human genius. . . The faith of a Christian should strive to reach and grasp everything that God has honored with a place in that Word, the design of which is to be a light to our feet as we thread our way through this dark world. Besides, this, unlike every other book, is not doomed to perish. Heaven and earth may pass away, but the words of Christ shall not pass away. The seal of eternity is stamped on every verse of the Bible. This fact is enough of itself to make every line of it important.

The Apostolic Church: Which Is It? by Thomas Witherow in Paradigms in Polity: Classic Readings in Reformed and Presbyterian Church Government, 37.

The Natives [the New Hebrides], destitute of the knowledge of the true God, are ceaselessly groping after Him, and not being able to live without some sort of God, they have made idols of almost everything: trees and groves, rocks and stones, springs and streams, insects and beasts, men and departed spirits, relics such as hair and finger nails, the heavenly bodies and the volcanoes; in fact, every being and every thing within the range of vision or of knowledge has been appeal to by them as GOd, — clearly proving that the instincts of Humanity, however degraded, prompt man to worship and lean upon some Being or Power outside himself, and greater than himself, in whom he lives and moves and has his being, and without the knowledge of whom his soul cannot find its true rest or its eternal life.

John G. Paton, The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 73.

Q. How are we to give our wealth to the Lord? — A. By setting apart sufficient time for his worship of our laboring days; and giving of our substance to support ministers, teachers, and the poor, 1 Cor. 9:14.

Q. How is this a mean of promoting our wealth? — A. As what is thus given from love to the Lord, is lent to him, and he will repay it with usury, Prov. 19:17.

Q. How doth the Lord repay what is thus lent to him? — A. By succeeding and directing our endeavors to gain more; and wonderfully providing for us or our posterity, when reduced to straits, Hag. 2:19, Ps. 37:25-26.

John Brown of Haddington, Questions and Answers on the Shorter Catechism, 255-256.

Moreover . . . the essence of God, as it is in itself, is imperceptible, yet notwithstanding, so that God might accommodate himself as best as can be done to the weakness of our mind, that is, so that we might not perceive absolutely nothing about his essence, he willed to designate it by such a name that he might most suitably convey it.

Petrus van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology, Volume 2: Faith in the Triune God

The voice of Wisdom points to God as the source of wisdom, so wisdom is to be found in the “fear of the Lord” (Job 28:20-28; Prov 1:7; 9:10). Human understanding alone, though it is God given, is not sufficient for wisdom: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Prov 3:5 NIV). The pursuit of knowledge attempted without reference to God is at best precarious and distorted, and if persistently pursued becomes seriously misleading and damaging.

“Teacher, Teaching” in Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, 842.

What is covenant theology? It hardly seems fair to suggest that something is so important without defining clearly what that thing is. Covenant theology, which sometimes is called federal theology, is the study of God’s eternal, unchanging purpose to bring a people to Himself through covenantal relationship. God has approached His people through covenant and He has worked through covenant to make them His own, and thus covenant theology uses that same covenantal structure to understand both God Himself and the redemption He has accomplished.

STEPHEN G. MYERS, GOD TO US – COVENANT THEOLOGY IN SCRIPTURE, 14.

God is the great teacher of the Bible. The whole course of the biblical story can be viewed as God’s instruction.

“Teacher, Teaching” in Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, 842.

The Kingdom is that overarching dome, of which the Church is a reflection. Just as it is never the blue of the lake that determines the blue of the sky, but always the blue of the sky that determines the blue of the lake; so then it is the pattern of the Kingdom that determines the origin and redemptive purpose of every church; and the spiritual nature of the Kingdom that determines the standards of spirituality in all the “services” of the church; and the (unlimited) extent of Christ’s kingdom that determines the mission vision of each church.

Roy Blackwood, The King and His Kingdom, 18-19.