The general characteristics
of a client nation to God include the following:
1. A civil government and policy
based on the laws of divine establishment. That includes free enterprise.
2. The function of evangelism under
the principle of freedom. We who evangelise must recognise the freedom of
others. Freedom means privacy. Our job is to clearly present the gospel but we
do not force people to accept Christ. We leave people with the information;
they must use their volition, and it is wrong on the part of Christians to
pressure people.
3. The establishment of local
churches which are autonomous. To the extent that local churches form into
denominations you are destroying the client nation principle. Denominations
become the enemy of client nations. Autonomous local churches: neither
connected with other churches to form denominations or spheres of influence,
nor involved in any movement which seeks to unite church and state. One of the
things that hurt England more than anything else was the fact that Henry the
Eighth established his own church and made it part of the state.
4. A vigorous and dynamic Bible
teaching to believers which emphasises the protocol system in the plan of God.
5. Missionary activity to other
nations under the indigenous principle of not interfering with foreign
governments but providing both gospel and Bible teaching for people in the
nation. No missionary has the right to interfere with the government and become
involved in the politics of the nation where he goes.
6. Affords a haven of toleration for
the dispersed Jews.