"As John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas have pointed out, among others, the church is a new polis. It is a God-created community that embodies a new politic and new definitions of leadership. The church, therefore, is a colony from another realm, representing the rights of its sovereign Lord. So our politics is embodied in the life that we’re called to live out together as God’s people—as the church.
In this sense, the church is the new order. We are the beginning of God’s kingdom that is already happening in the midst of the old order. If the church is operating properly in a given locality, the kingdom of God is seen. Justice, peace, love, mutual care, giving, etc., are made visible. Christ is seen on the earth again."

- Jesus Manifesto