We are not a welfare institution. The saving of the individual soul is not our main concern. In this respect we differ from the Salvation Army. Certainly we too carry on good works, and certainly people are also saved, but that is not the first concern, not the most important thing. Our interest is in the great, holy cause, the kingdom of God, and mission to the world. Whoever comes into the Brotherhood must be able to say: “I will forget myself completely here. If only I could be a doorkeeper in the house of God, I would prefer that to sitting in the palaces of the rich.”
- Eberhard Arnold
February 29,2025
- Eberhard Arnold, January 1935 God’s RevolutionWhat does Jesus tell us? Show your love to those who represent the government. You are not to take revenge but to meet the authorities with love. Then too, pray for the government. (1 Tim. 2:1–2) It is utterly different from the Body of Christ, but it too serves God, though in a completely different sphere. The authorities are necessary; crime could not be kept under any kind of control without them. So you should recognize government authority but not become part of it. You are members of Christ, and Christ specifically rejected becoming a ruler. When they wanted to make Him a king, He escaped. (John 6:15) And when the Tempter came to Him and said, “Here, I will give you all the kingdoms of the world,” He refused. (Matt. 4:8–10) But He treated the authorities with respect.
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August 18,2025
Whoever has discerned in the revolutionary movements the awakening of conscience in the sense of the Sermon on the Mount and in the sense of the future kingdom of God fights all the more sharply against the demonic powers of impurity, the murder spirit, lying polemics, and the greed for possession and power in socialism and communism. But it is of great importance that just in this decisive struggle Christians discern the awakening for God, and that they witness to Christ in the midst of the socialist, pacifist and communist movements of conscience.
- Eberhard Arnold
August 17,2025
The believing church of Jesus Christ, in contrast to Buddhism and Buddhist-oriented Christianity, is and remains so far turned toward the world that the whole earth and all peoples may be won for the kingdom of God. God’s loving heart and action are turned toward the world! The church lives for the kingdom of God, that justice, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit may be brought near in her and made actual on earth. In the present age all this takes place on earth through the church whose citizenship and politics belong only to the future kingdom of God, which in the new age will come down from heaven to the whole earth.
- Eberhard Arnold
