Tolu Kolawole 
The world is going through a period of intense crisis. From the spiralling cost of living and inflation, to economic instability, war, and a growing loss of faith in governmental institutions, the turbulence of our age is undeniable. Yet for the Christian, this is not a time to retreat in fear or fold our hands in resignation. Rather, it is a providential moment—a call to courage, faith, and dominion.
The Light Shines Brightest in the Darkness
This is the hour in which our light must shine the brightest. It is in the crucible of cultural collapse that the radiance of Christ’s kingdom is most necessary. Unfortunately, much of modern evangelicalism has embraced an eschatology of defeat—a theology that expects decay, anticipates retreat, and waits for rescue. The pervasive “lifeboat” mentality has painted the church as a mere escape pod from a doomed world, rather than the engine of its restoration.
But this is not the biblical vision. Christ declared that we are a city on a hill (Matthew 5:14), a beacon to the nations. As Gary North argued in Millennialism and Social Theory, the expectation of inevitable defeat has paralyzed Christian cultural engagement. In contrast, postmillennial eschatology, rooted in the triumph of Christ, asserts that the kingdom of God grows like leaven in the dough, transforming all it touches (Matthew 13:33).
The True Progressives
The prophecy of Daniel speaks of a stone, cut without hands, that strikes the statue of worldly kingdoms and grows into a great mountain filling the whole earth (Daniel 2:35). This stone is the kingdom of Christ, and its expansion is not a distant dream—it is our present calling. As R.J. Rushdoony noted in The Institutes of Biblical Law, law and dominion are inescapably religious. If the state abandons God’s law, another system will rise in its place. Thus, the mission of the church is to proclaim Christ not only as Savior, but also as Sovereign over every sphere.
To be a Christian, therefore, is to be a true progressive—not in the secular sense, but in the biblical one. We are agents of kingdom progress, not awaiting evacuation but marching forward in faith. As Ken Gentry puts it in He Shall Have Dominion, “God’s kingdom does not lose ground. It advances through history until all enemies are placed under Christ’s feet.”
Reigning in the Here and Now
Christ is not a distant king awaiting a second coronation. He is the reigning monarch now. After his resurrection, Jesus declared, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:18-19). The Great Commission is not a rescue mission—it is a cultural conquest.
This kingdom vision demands that we, like Joshua and Caleb, go forward in faith. The land has already been given; the question is whether we will take it. Stephen Perks in The Political Economy of a Christian Society emphasizes that biblical economics, politics, and education must be built by believers who refuse to cede territory to secularism. This is our moment to reconstruct culture on the foundation of God’s law.
Faith or Fear: The Choice of Every Generation
Each generation of believers faces the same question Israel faced at the edge of Canaan: will we enter the land in faith, or shrink back in unbelief? The spies saw giants and called for retreat; Joshua and Caleb saw the promises of God and pressed forward. We are not called to endure history, but to shape it.
As Rushdoony, North, and Gentry have emphasized, Christian Reconstruction is not about escapism. It is about dominion under Christ, in history, by His Spirit and His Word. The kingdom is not postponed; it is advancing. The only question is whether we will be faithful stewards of the time and terrain God has given us.
Let us choose faith. Let us rebuild. Let us reign with Christ now, and shine as a city on a hill for a world in crisis.
