Aug 12
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ChristianGovernance reveals new logo
ChristianGovernance is very pleased to reveal our brand new logo. The change-over on our websites should be complete in the next few days
There is quite a bit to the imagery of this logo, so we want to explain what it represents.
First of all, you will see the three intersecting circles. That image represents sphere sovereignty, which we understand as the Biblical model for human social order. Self-government is not represented there, but parental government, church government and civil government are. Their spheres of authority intersect and none has the right to sit over any of the others, interposing itself between God and another divine institution as a false mediator. Christ is the only Mediator between God and man, both personally and institutionally in respect to the governments God has established for human existence.
You will also notice that the bottom circles have been stylized as a “C” and a “G” for ChristianGovernance.
Our new slogan is “A Worldview Compass.” We have been to blame in several ways for having people think that ChristianGovernance was a political organization. Our logo with Ottawa’s political skyline didn’t help! We in fact exist to teach and train people in Biblical worldview and apologetics – we always have been (though a lot of our commentary and analysis relates to politics because of how pervasive the civil government is in our lives and because the civil government is the lead idol in today’s pantheon of false gods). You will also note the compass inside the top circle. Just as a compass exists to help people set their course, and to keep them from getting lost, a Biblical worldview helps people set the direction and chart the course for their lives.
In the other two circles we have a cross and a Bible (as well as a sword which represents the Bible, the Sword of the Spirit. “Spiritas,” Latin for spirit, is written on the sword.). The two components of a Biblical worldview are the Law of God and the Lordship of Christ. Many Christians today struggle with right thinking about the law of God. We have not been taught for decades (even generations in some cases), the breadth of ethical wisdom that we can learn from the Bible. In most cases, this is because we have been taught that the Old Testament, which contains much of those ethics, was written for a previous era and has no binding authority in our lives. The very broad categories of the Ten Commandments are affirmed in principle, but that level of acceptance has done little to help Christians – modern, Western Christians anyway – to develop lives that are distinguishable from non-Christians in many respects. ChristianGovernance argues that the Bible as God’s Law-Word, in its particulars, has perpetual relevance and binding authority in the lives of Christians.
If God’s Law is hard to embrace as the source of wisdom for godly living, the Lordship of Christ is even more difficult. If Christ is Lord and King, then He is to be acknowledged; He is to receive tribute from men. This can’t simply be an academic concept that only requires theological assent. If Christ is Lord, He deserves worship from every facet of human life. If Christ is King, He demands homage from all men, individually and corporately. We must live as before the face of God in all that we do. We must be concerned about the daily, real-world implications of our relationship with God as well as what the Bible says about ethical behaviour between man and man. This means that we must have concern for the implications of the first four Commandments as well as the last 6. This means that civil magistrates – politicians, monarchs, judges, etc. – are obligated to visibly and verbally acknowledge the Lordship of Christ in their public service. Kingship means nothing if it is hidden. (Christ is not undercover in another man’s kingdom. He rose from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of God, reigning over His Church and His creation.) Christ warned that if we are ashamed of Him on earth, He will be ashamed of us before His Father in heaven.
A focus on Law without Lordship, turns Christianity into another form of Humanism, preoccupied with horizontal relationships – those between man and man – and ignoring the practical, tangible, comprehensive outworking of our vertical relationship; our relationship with God.
This focus on the Lordship of Christ is simultaneously a focus on Christ the Saviour. The only reason He can be our Saviour is because He defeated His enemies as the sin-bearer for His people; because He rose victorious from the grave as Conqueror, and now sits at the right hand of God as King. Recognition of the Lordship of Christ along with the Law of God reminds us that, as fundamental as God’s law is as the standard of justice, Christianity is not a works-based religion; it’s a religion built upon the Cornerstone of the Lord Jesus Christ.
ChristianGovernance, therefore, provides a vision of Biblical worldview which affirms both Law and Lordship – the abiding and living relevance of the Law of God AND the Lordship of Christ – for relevant and victorious Christian living; for the effective advancement of the Kingdom of God in history. This is what the cross and the Bible/sword represent in our logo. It is interesting to note that a sword is a cross-shaped image: a cross and a sword are two variants of the same essential image.
We want to thank Heather Morin of New Dimension Design for working with us through this process and for designing this excellent logo for us.
