Kinism does not align with the nature of the Church, and it also rejects the proper government of the Church. Ministers are gifts given to the Visible Church as a whole, not just a particular group or society …There is no idea of one race being more fit for ministry than another race, nor to the necessity that pastors only minister to those of their particular race.

From the chapter, “Kinism is Contrary to the Nature and Government of the Church”

Not only is the Church the catholic (meaning universal) communion of saints, but we are called specifically a distinct race and kingdom. Peter writes to the churches in the diaspora: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9). “Our citizenship is in heaven,” the Apostle Paul writes in Philippians 3:20, not to abolish any sense of national identity, but to provide a right ordering of our affections and longings.

Our greatest affinity is not the natural affinity of blood and soil, but of Spirit and truth. It is said of the godly patriarchs that when they died, each was “gathered to his people” (Gen. 25:8, 49:33; Num. 20:24). Christian reader, who are “your people”—the ones to whom you desire to be gathered? Surely it is not just those with whom you merely share a common ancestry, but it is all those with whom you share a common Savior!

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