“The deepest disorders of the church often arise from a collapse of biblical tension: the church confuses created means with divine agency and seeks to manage, by creaturely methods as substitutes for God’s own work, realities that belong to God alone to govern, redeem, sanctify, and consummate.” —- Dr. Michael King
“The Word of God does not abolish tension; it places us within God’s holy tension, that our lives may be opened, aligned, and sent.” —- Dr. Michael King
“Biblical Tension Theology does not begin as a theory but as a rule of fidelity. Its concern is not the invention of a new system, but the recovery of the structural form in which God has given His revelation.” —- Dr. Michael King
BTT (Biblical Tension Theology)
Why are there so many Christian denominations? Why is the church so often torn by conflict? Why do so many believers show little growth—even after years? It’s not only human weakness, cultural difference, or spiritual warfare. At a deeper level, one root keeps surfacing: The collapse of biblical tensions.
Scripture repeatedly holds together realities that must remain together. But when we flatten “both/and” into “either/or,” the church fractures: