(Wow, I have owed you a response on this for nearly a year (http://sk8eeyore.livejournal.com/694457.html?thread=1402809#t1402809).)
I don't have a strong personal preference between "kingdom" and "kin-dom," but my understanding of "kin-dom" is that it's emphasizing relationship and community. It's not necessarily negating God's sovereignty, but it's de-emphasizing it. I can see how that would be problematic, but I'm really not personally invested in an emphasis on God's "power over" -- I think we can strive to do God's will without having to structure it in ideas focused on God as Lord and Master (Somerville Community Baptist used "Master" a lot, and I had serious difficulty with that). It's also used a lot as an emphasis for how we can help to embody and bring about God's kin(g)dom here on earth.
I'm sure I'm not explaining this well, since it's not a concept I've spent a lot of time really engaging with, but I'm happy to respond to any specific concerns or questions.
And actually it occurs to me that CWM has started including an explanation of its use of "kin-dom" in the bulletin recently, so I'll try to remember to look for that when I get home.
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Date: 2009-01-27 08:47 pm (UTC)I don't have a strong personal preference between "kingdom" and "kin-dom," but my understanding of "kin-dom" is that it's emphasizing relationship and community. It's not necessarily negating God's sovereignty, but it's de-emphasizing it. I can see how that would be problematic, but I'm really not personally invested in an emphasis on God's "power over" -- I think we can strive to do God's will without having to structure it in ideas focused on God as Lord and Master (Somerville Community Baptist used "Master" a lot, and I had serious difficulty with that).
It's also used a lot as an emphasis for how we can help to embody and bring about God's kin(g)dom here on earth.
I'm sure I'm not explaining this well, since it's not a concept I've spent a lot of time really engaging with, but I'm happy to respond to any specific concerns or questions.
And actually it occurs to me that CWM has started including an explanation of its use of "kin-dom" in the bulletin recently, so I'll try to remember to look for that when I get home.