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Front Page Article  
"The Lenses of Reformation
​Concerning ESG II"
By Patti Amsden
An early reading of Genesis reveals that God created mankind to be in right relationship with God and with the works of His hands. Part of rightly relating includes representing God and God’s interests in the earth. This role is called the Dominion Mandate. To accomplish the assignment, man was given authority to act and power to enforce his decisions.
Reformation lens #1 – At the original creation of mankind, God placed the future of the earth into humanity’s care and under humanity’s power.

Adam and Eve and all their future heirs were included in the honor and responsibility to exercise the Dominion Mandate. Because the number of heirs was destined to grow and the area of occupied land would expand until the whole earth was inhabited, mankind would have been required to cooperate with one another in the exercise of power, authority, and control over the earth. Pre-fall man without any sin condition would have been capable of walking in right relationship with one another.
Reformation lens #2 – In the original Dominion Mandate assignment, every person would have been commissioned to exercise personal authority without compromising right relationship with his or her neighbor.

The scope of the Dominion Mandate includes division of land, assets, and intellectual property as each individual exercises control over his or her assigned or boundaried area. Owners must gain knowledge and exercise wisdom when making choices. Each owner has the God-given right to benefit from his good stewardship or suffer negative repercussions from foolish or unwise use of authority. Commandments six through ten explicitly forbid one person to interfere with his or her neighbor as that neighbor exercises the Dominion Mandate.
Reformation lens #3 – No person may interfere with another person’s power of choice or breach the God-appointed domain of a neighbor by bringing harm to the person, property, family, reputation, or work product of a neighbor.

Post fall, mankind remained under the Dominion Mandate; but because of his sinful mature, mankind developed a plethora of ways to confiscate private property, coerce the will of others for self-gain, and threaten illegitimate use of power for self-promotion. Due to sin, mankind neglected the responsibility of remaining in right relationship with his fellowman. History has recorded the actions of mankind’s attempts to accumulate power for earthly dominion at the hands of individual criminals, warlords over rival gangs, dictators in authoritarian governments, and warlocks aligned with demonic agendas.
Reformation lens #4 – Power exercised over one’s neighbor outside of a God-appointed sphere of authority is evil and outside of right relationship promoted by the Dominion Mandate.

As reformers, we must love God, love His precepts, and love our neighbor. We must recognize the illegitimate use of power whether that power is being used by one person over another person or whether that power is being exercised by one group of people over another group of people. The Dominion Mandate does not support the use of scripturally prohibited power. The Ten Commandments apply to the individual and to the collective. At all levels of culture, God forbids mankind to usurp free-will choices of others. At all levels of culture, God requires men to honor the boundaries of others and work to promote the good of our neighbor.



Archived Articles

​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning ESG
           September, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning State Schools
            July, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Punishment and Imprisonment
            July, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Biblical Use of Power
            June, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Primary Elections
            June, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Amendment 1 and Civil Overreach into Other God-ordained Jurisdictions 
            May, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Amendment 1  
            May, 2022
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Critical Race Theory  
    December, 2021
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Vaccination of Children  
    November, 2021
​The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Parental Notification in  Abortion
                   October, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning the Myth of Neutrality in Education 
                   October, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Shema and Biblical education vs. Public Education
                   July, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Sex Education in Public Schools, Part II
                   July, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Sex Education in Public Schools
                   July, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Thrones of Iniquity
                   May, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Police Reform Laws
               February, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR)
               January, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Redistricting
               January, 2021
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Mayflower Compact
            November, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Right to Vote
            October, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Graduated Tax Amendment​   
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              September, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Awakening
            July, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Illinois Monuments
            July, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Illinois Governors and Corruption
            June, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Illinois Governors and State Racial Equality
            June, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning the Civil Realm and Overstepping Authority 
            May, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Righteous Civil Actions and the Pandemic
            May, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning the Curse and a Plague
            April, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Covenant
            March, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Societal Corruption
            March, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Corruption in Illinois Civil Servants 
            February, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning the Morality of Recreational Marijuana 
            February, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Legalizing Marijuana 
            January, 2020
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Ekklesia and Apostolic Alliances 
            December, 2019
The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Abortion and Gate-keepers
            November, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Restoring Ancient Pathways
            October, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Kingdom Management by the Ekklesia
            September, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Building Local Ekklesia Alliances
                  August, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Covenantal Stewardship over the Earth
                  July, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Government Involvement in Farm Subsidies
                   July,  2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Progressive Income Taxes
                   June,  2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning Income Taxes
                   June,  2019
The Lenses of 
Reformation Concerning Mercy and Natural Disasters

                   May,  2019
The Lenses of 
Reformation Concerning State Treasurer and Comptroller  

                   May,  2019
The Lenses of 
Reformation Concerning State Government and Record-Keeping  

                 April, 2019
 The Lenses of Reformation Concerning the Role of Courts and Civil Justice
                 March, 2019
Illinois:  The Apostolic State; A Call to Leaders
       November 30, 2017
Illinois:  The Apostolic State
       November 28, 2017
Biblical View on Minimum Wage, Part 3
       September 28, 2017

Biblical View on Minimum Wage, Part 2
       September 14, 2017

Biblical View on Minimum Wage
            August  31, 2017
Biblical Case for Civil Taxation, Part 3
            August 3, 2017

Biblical Case for Civil Taxation, Part 2
            August 3, 2017


Biblical Case for Civil Taxation, Part 1
               July 13, 2017

Business:  Plunder and Free Will Contracts
               May 25, 2017

Business:  The Engine of Dominion
               May 25, 2017

Man's Inheritance of the Earth 
            May 11, 2017

Building the City of God 
            April  2, 2017


Judgment on the Fallen Kosmos 
            March 2, 2017

Discipling the Nations: The Fallen Kosmos
        February 2, 2017


A New Administration Takes Office:  Who Must Keep the Law?
          January  19 2017

Welcoming 2017:  A Year of God's Provision
        January  5, 2017

Discipling the Nations: God's Earth under Man's Stewardship
        December 8, 2016

Discipling the Nations: Teaching all Nations
        November 17, 2016

Ekklesia:  Revelation of the Rock Mountain             August 25, 2016
Ekklesia:  Upon This Rock I Will Build My Church 
            August 11, 2016
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Ekklesia; The Background of Caesarea Philippi 
              July 28, 2016.
Ekklesia; Moses #1 and Moses #2 
              July 14, 2016
Ekklesia; The Nature of the Christ's Courts, #3 
              June 23, 2016
Ekklesia; The Nature of the Christ's Courts, #2 
              June 23, 2016
Ekklesia: The Nature of the Christ's Courts, #1 
              June 2, 2016.
Ekklesia: The Nature of the Lowest Courts, #2 
              May 19, 2016

Ekklesia: The Nature of the Lowest Courts, #1 
              May 5, 2016
Ekklesia:  The Authority of Biblical Courts 
             
April 28, 2016

Ekklesia:  Judicial  Activity
             
April 14, 2016
Ekklesia:  Maturity through Responsibility  
             
April 7, 2016
Ekklesia:  Shared Yoke  
           
March 31, 2016.

Ekklesia:  Shared Power  
           
March 24, 2016.

Ekklesia: The Power of Unity       
           
March 10, 2016
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Ekklesia: Economic
Subordination  
      
           
March 03, 2016.

Ekklesia: Earned Authority       
        
February 25, 2016

Ekklesia: The Nature of Ekklesia Authority       
        
February11, 2016

Ekklesia: Called-Out and Set-In Authority       
        
February 4, 2016.

Ekklesia: Greek City-States
       January 28, 2016

The Church: An Ekklesia not a Synagogue
       January 21, 2016

Ekklesia:  The Governmental Function of the Church
       January 14, 2016

Ekklesia:  The Quest for Truth
       January 7, 2016
Ekklesia:  Keys of Kingdom Management, Part 2
       November 24, 2015

 Ekklesia:  Keys of Kingdom Management
        November 17, 2015

 Ekklesia:  God's Appointed Stewards
        November 12, 2015
A Resurrected Ekklesia:
        November 5, 2015
Ekklesia:  Lift Up Your Heads, O You Gates 
        October 22, 2015

Ekklesia:  Opening the  Gates of Death 
        October 8, 2015

Ekklesia:  The Gates of Hell shall Not Prevail 
        October 1, 2015

The Ekklesia Built by Christ 
       September 24, 2015

Dismantling the Older Covenant Order 
       September 17, 2015

Blessed are the Meek and Inheriting the Earth 
          September 9 ,2015
Covenantal Faithfulness and Stewarding the Earth 
             August 27 ,2015
Covenantal Sanctions 
             August 20 ,2015
The Ratified Covenant 
             August 13 ,2015
God's Everlasting Covenant  
                August 6,2015
The Nature of Covenant  
                 July 30,2015
Leviathan and The Transfer of Wealth 
                 July 23,2015
Leviathan and Mammon 
                 July 16,2015
Leviathan, Cheating in the Trade 
                 July 9,2015
Leviathan and Power Economics
                 July 2,2015
Leviathan, A Demonic Principality
                 June 18,2015
Leviathan, Controlling the Commerce of a Nation
                 June 25,2015
Leviathan, King of Pride
                 June 11,2015
Escapist Religion
                   June 4,2015
Dual Citizenship
                May 28, 2015
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