Kingdom Culture Here and Now: Honor

What if much of what the Church has called honor is not honor at all?Honor is often associated with respect, submission, celebration, loyalty, titles, and recognition. Those expressions can be beautiful. They can also be performed while fear, control, ambition, insecurity, flattery, and relational dysfunction quietly govern beneath the surface.In Kingdom Culture Here and Now: Honor, Dr. Joshua F. Todd returns honor to a simpler and more demanding foundation: Honor is agreeing with God about something or someone and responding accordingly.That definition changes the conversation.Honor is no longer blind agreement with a leader. It is not silence when truth needs to be spoken. It is not protecting unhealthy systems, exaggerating someone's importance, surrendering discernment, or calling loyalty to a person loyalty to God.True honor begins by asking: What does God see here?From that foundation, Dr. Todd explores how honor transforms the way we see people, carry relationships, recognize authority, respond to gifting, navigate disagreement, handle correction, establish boundaries, and build healthy spiritual communities.Drawing from Scripture and years of ministry and relational leadership, Honor confronts both sides of the problem. It challenges cultures that use honor to protect control, while also challenging the suspicion, offense, familiarity, independence, and unresolved pain that can keep us from recognizing genuine grace and God-given responsibility in others.You will discover why: - dignity and truth must remain together;- relationship must remain more valuable than function;- equal value does not mean identical responsibility;- disagreement is not automatically dishonor or rebellion;- correction and healthy boundaries can be expressions of honor;- flattery, celebrity, fear, and forced loyalty are counterfeits;- authority must serve responsibility rather than personal importance;- restoration can acknowledge both what happened and what God is doing now;- and honorable communities are formed when truth can travel through relationships without destroying them.This is not a book about becoming more polite.It is an invitation to recover Kingdom sight.Because when God changes the way we see people, He changes the way we relate to them. And when enough people begin relating from His perspective, honor moves beyond a teaching and becomes a culture.Honor is the first pillar of Kingdom Culture Here and Now, a four-volume exploration of Honor, Humility, Hunger, and Holiness and the kind of people formed when the culture of the King becomes visible among His people.