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Fundamentals of Society-Building: The Power of God

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God is the creator of the world. Any controversy before now has certainly faded away with the supernatural events that have been pointing to a creative being behind the scene of the universe. The account of creation is complete with the introduction of man to the scene.

Adam was made and Eve followed from him. God blessed them charging them to procreate and multiply to fill the earth. Fill the earth, but they attempted to coagulate and put up a structure at Babel to keep themselves together against the command of God. The power of God was displayed when the unitary language was diversified against their capacity to decipher any of the strange languages.

This attempt to disobey the commands of God has been there for centuries, especially the disposition to coagulate in other to boost human ego and pride oneself of bigness and splendor. Up until the advent of Jesus Christ and the establishment of his church in Israel, the early apostles attempted to stay together against the instructions of Jesus Christ to the effect to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to everyone”, until a fierce persecution scattered them all over the then world. The power of God was unleashed at each point of the whole scenario.

Even the establishment of the church was brought about by the power of God. It was the fortieth day after Jesus Christ rose from the dead and he took his disciples to mount Olives where he told them to remain in Jerusalem until they received the promised power of God to enable them carry out the earlier mentioned Great Commission to go and preach the gospel to every creature. Ten days later, exactly fifty days after his resurrection, the power of God was released to the apostles in the person of the Holy Spirit.

The church became a spiritual family just like the natural family where parents and their children interact and children are trained to mature into adults. This is why a chapter in the eBook, Proper Parenting, by C.N.C. Ejiofor, is devoted to the need to depend on God for the proper upbringing of children. This is very necessary because, not only that God has the ownership right of humans, but also that without his power, we cannot achieve our goals at all.

In the spiritual family, the power of God is evident to transform people in the body of the church from bad character to acceptable character based on God’s standards. Likewise, in the secular family, the same power of God is available as the only possible agent to form good and acceptable characters in developing children. Parents, both spiritual and temporal, can tap into the power of God to get expected results.       

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