“I take issue with the premise that we can create a “Heaven on Earth” without the direct intervention of Jesus.”
Wow, go back and watch the video again. He never asserts that we can create Heaven on earth “without Jesus”. First off, the Holy Spirit is in believers so in a sense God is here on earth. The speakers only assertion is that we are commanded to go out and be salt and light and change the world around us.
Because we are commanded to.
Too many Christians sit around and wait for the rapture and don’t get involved in politics or charity because “Jesus is coming back soon anyway”.
“Too many Christians sit around and wait for the rapture and don’t get involved in politics or charity because “Jesus is coming back soon anyway”.”
Do you really know Christians like this? All the ones that I know, and that do believe we are in the “end times” are very involved in politics & charity. One of my former pastors has been very involved in Haiti, and prays & advises local governmental leaders whenever he gets the opportunity - and they seek him out. I truly have never known Christians that are just hiding out, waiting for the rapture. I believe that’s just an argument that the preterists/Kingdom Now/dominionists use.