Notes of Faith October 30, 2025
Becoming a Kingdom Influencer
Your Kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
— Matthew 6:10
God’s Kingdom agenda is the visible manifestation of His comprehensive rule over every area of life. It involves God’s will revealed in real-time situations. Advancing His Kingdom agenda means intentionally committing your time, talents, and treasures to the revelation of His will on earth.
You and I joined this representative group of Kingdom followers once we trusted in Jesus Christ for our personal salvation. We have been redeemed from a place of darkness and sin into the marvelous light of Christ for the purpose of representing heaven in earth’s history and, eventually, upon our death, eternity. Our role involves a resistance to cultural norms: refusing to be co-opted by the trends of today and instead representing Kingdom values in all we say and do. We are specifically designated to serve Heaven’s interests in the midst of a secular, declining, and evil society.
The problem arises, though, when many of us get bought out by the culture. Far too many believers have sold out to society. They are owned by a set of values contrary to God’s Kingdom values, so much so that they are no longer representing the kingdom of God. They are instead Benedict Arnolds of God’s Kingdom. This causes great confusion when people look to believers to live out the principles of the Kingdom, but believers fail to do so.
You are a Kingdom disciple living as a Kingdom servant while making a Kingdom impact that will resonate throughout all time.
And you do this through what we read earlier from 1 Peter, which says we are to
proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light. — 2:9
You are to be a proclaimer of Christ. A more contemporary term would be Kingdom influencer. You are to use your status, time, talent, and treasures to influence others for God’s glory and the greater good of all. You are to serve notice on the culture that Jesus Christ is here and His Kingdom is alive and well.
As a Kingdom influencer, you are to proclaim the gospel to a lost world and bring glory to God.
When your Christianity is visible, you’ll effect change.
New creations with a new purpose
Paul outlined this mission of ours as Kingdom influencers in 2 Corinthians 5, especially in verse 17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
and verse 20
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ...
Ambassador is another term for representative or influencer. In the political realm, an ambassador is duly deputized to go to another country and represent their homeland. They hold an official title and responsibility to represent the nation they’ve been sent out from. Thus, ambassadors sent from the United States are not promoting the culture of foreign lands as their primary goal. They are to promote the values and prosperity of the United States of America.
Paul called each of us an ambassador who has been saved by Jesus Christ. As I’ve noted, our job is to take the values of the Kingdom of Heaven and promote them in the culture of this world. Whether this is on the job, in the marketplace, to family members, in your community, or even in your church doesn’t matter. What matters is that you promote God’s Kingdom principles everywhere you are.
The moment the culture disagrees with God’s principles, you are to disagree with the culture. You are not an ambassador of earth. You are an ambassador of the Kingdom of Heaven. Heaven’s values are to inform your words, worldview, concepts, and actions. They are to inform every aspect of your life because you are a citizen from on high. To acquiesce to the culture negates the purpose and effectiveness of your true role.
Unfortunately, God has a lot of His followers keeping the title but failing to carry out the role. They are not representing the Kingdom of God in the culture of the world. Rather than repenting and returning to God when they veer off course, they have gotten comfortable with society and its ways. Thus they have become useless in advancing God’s Kingdom agenda on earth.
Are you a Kingdom influencer?
The question you need to ask yourself: Am I a kingdom influencer? Are you making a difference on others or are you simply promoting the culture at large and its values? Are you seeking to bring about radical transformational change, or are you seeking to settle for the status quo? The way you answer those questions will quickly tell you how much of God’s Kingdom power you are unleashing in your life. God equips and provides for those who live according to His purposes. He has never stated that He will equip and provide for those who are apathetic to His Kingdom cause.
When your Christianity is visible, you’ll effect change. You’ll unleash Kingdom authority. You’ll live as a Kingdom influencer making a difference. You must live as a visible, verbal follower of Jesus Christ, not as a secret-agent Christian. Now, you are to do this lovingly and with compassion and sensitivity, but you are to stand for what you know to be true. You are not to be ashamed of the gospel. You are not to be ashamed of God’s taking you out of darkness and placing you in the light.
As Peter wrote,
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing
in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation. — 1 Peter 2:12
Thank you, Heavenly Father, that by Your grace You have saved me and made me an ambassador to share Your truth, light, grace, and goodness with others as I go. Amen.
Adapted from Unleashed by Dr. Tony Evans, copyright Dr. Tony Evans.
Chosen from before the foundation of the world…Came to faith in Jesus Christ through the hearing of the gospel. Forgiven, saved, redeemed, made useful for the work of God in ministry to others that they might believe and come into the family of God and receive eternal life as we have. May we even in a small way, begin to understand what God has done, is doing, and promises to do, in and through us, that He might be glorified and we infinitely blessed!
Pastor Dale