“The Kingdom doesn’t just run through your living room. It runs through your bank account, your bookshelf, your dinner table, and even your landscaping.”
We live in an age that is nearly allergic to beauty. Our cities are built like machines. Our homes feel like storage units for all the stuff we’ve acquired. Our churches echo like warehouses. And, we wonder why everything feels cold, chaotic, and flat.
But the truth is, beauty and order are not optional for the Christian life. The God who spoke the world into being didn’t stop at function. He made it good. Then He made it glorious.
In this first part of our two-part series on Beauty and Order, we’re laying down a theology of glory that touches everything. We talk about beauty and order from kitchen counters to catechism, from Psalms to landscaping.
This isn’t about aesthetics for aesthetics' sake, but about taking dominion where God has placed us. If we truly believe the Kingdom runs through every square inch of your life, then that means your home, your work, your church, and even your imagination. So, we should build it with beauty and order.
Segment 1: The Household – Beauty as Atmosphere and Authority
Your home is a liturgy. Every smell, sound, and sight is discipling your children. Not in theory, but in reality. A clean counter and a lit candle are not legalism, they’re glory in the ordinary.
“Your children are being discipled by the atmosphere long before they understand your theology.”
Segment 2: The Mind – Beauty as Intellectual Delight
Theology isn’t just about accuracy. It’s about craft. Truth should be shaped like a crown. The Psalms don’t just inform, they form. And a shallow media diet leads to a shallow soul.
“Starve your soul with shallow media, and you’ll forget the taste of glory.”
Segment 3: The Church – Beauty as Sacred Reverence
Reverence for God must be a standard in the church, no matter the style of worship. From doxology to decorum, the Church is called to reflect God’s holiness. A child who hears the Doxology every week will grow up associating beauty with worship—for life.
“The Church isn’t a content distribution center. It’s a temple of glory.”
FIELD ORDER
Choose one domain and bring beauty and order into it this week.
Set the dinner table like you’re serving a King.
Read a Psalm aloud, and mean it.
Clean your garage.
Light a candle.
Write a letter.
Whatever you do, don’t let it be accidental. Make it beautiful. Make it worship. The Kingdom is not abstract. It’s incarnational. It smells like bread, sounds like singing, and looks like glory. So, let’s build like it.
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