“In some farming communities, the farmers might build fences around their properties to keep their livestock in and the livestock of other farms out. This is a bounded set.”[5] That is, it keeps track of who’s in and who’s out. Religions do this in a variety of ways. Church membership rosters are an obvious one. Contrary to a bounded set, a more Christ-centered way of thinking about the Kingdom is by picturing a rural community where farms and ranches cover an enormous geographical location. The area is so vast that fences are out of the question. Under these conditions a farmer has to
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