Take the Gospel message to its natural conclusion. What does society look like? The two commandments of Jesus are:

1. Love the Lord with all your strength, heart, mind, body and soul.
   
2. Love your neighbour as yourself.

Our society at the moment is set up as follows. The economy is based around money. Money is earned by selling some of our time to an organisation. We then use this money to buy services and products, thus paying other people's wages. Jesus says that we can't serve both God and money (Matthew 6:24), but what is so bad about money?

1. In general, it prevents us from seeing the people we serve and those who are serving us. It isolates us, so that we can't see the sweat shops that make our clothes, for example.

2. Money is an incentive for greed. People can worship money itself, even though it is just a concept, a means of exchanging products and services.

3. It promotes huge inequality.

4. It can easily be used for bad purposes and we often do not realise it.

5. It promotes the relationship culture where women marry for money. This in turn encourages men to earn more. A lot of money in this type of relationship culture is spent on self-image enhancements (ranging from shoes and handbags to fast cars).

6. When someone serves us it is because they are paid to do it; they don't do it because they want to. We feel that it is our right to buy their services with our money, so we don't appreciate what they do for us. If people don't have to serve us but still do so, then we appreciate it; it is difficult not to appreciate a completely selfless act. Money stops us from caring about what we do for others and what others do for us.

A Christian economy would not be based around money. There would be no taxes, because there would be no health service, armed forces, pension service or anything else that taxes pay for. Instead, there would be a system of local communities. Every person in the local community would be dedicated to serving everyone else. One way of doing this would be to have a central meeting place perhaps with request boards in it. If anyone needed anything (like a bedroom, transport, spiritual healing etc.) then other people in the community would do their best to fulfill the request of that person. Food products from local farms would also be brought there, and people would take what they needed. No one would take any more than they needed and everyone would love their neighbour as themselves.

If a whole community became in need then other communities would step in and help. If whole regions or countries needed help, then people would go to help them.

There are many advantages that would result from organising society in this way. No one would be working a 70 hour week in management consultancy. 95% of current job types would become completely unnecessary. People would have more free time and everyone would be their own boss; the Truth would set everyone free (because everyone would be able to choose what types of things they could do to serve) and there would be no inequality. No one would have authority over anyone else.

One might think that people in a Christian society would spend all their time worshipping. In fact a Christian society would not engage in what has become traditional worship. Jesus has no interest in being sung to or having large cathedrals built for him (in John 5:41, Jesus says, "I am not looking for human praise").

Practicalities:

Electricity
In our society, electricity generation is often polluting (e.g. coal, oil and gas) or dangerous (nuclear). If electricity is used, then it should be generated using renewable sources. Alternatively, there is wood for fires and candles for lights, which are renewable sources of light and heating.

Health service
Completely unnecessary. Anyone in the community could heal anyone else.

Police
Police and prisons are in opposition to the freedom afforded by following Jesus, and would have no place in the ideal Christian society.

Banks, insurance and finance
There is no money, so these are not required. Everyone would be so willing to serve others that there would be no need for insurance. In addition, people would have few possessions, and nothing of financial value to insure.

Transport
There may need to be a transport system. There are many problems with our modern transport systems including pollution and the consumption of oil, which promotes war. In the ideal Christian society, transport could be based initially around traditional methods and bicycles.

Education
We should be taught how to read and understand the Bible and learn how to follow Jesus; we would also need to learn the things that we are good at so that we could serve others. People could be taught a range of skills by many people in society; adults could teach young people the things that they do to serve the community, so that young people could find out what they enjoy doing. Since people live forever, there is less urgency for early years education, and children should be allowed to enjoy their childhood. I do not believe that people should be forced to go to schools.

Pensions and Social Security
No pensions are required because people stay young. Social security is not necessary, because of the nature of mutual service in the society.

There would only be one job in this society and that would be servant. Everyone would serve the needs of others. There is a parable about this type of society in "The City of the Sun", by Tommaso Campanella. This was written in 1602, just after he was condemned to life imprisonment for sedition and heresy. He describes a city at the equator on a mountain about 2 miles high, paralleling the location parables in "City Planning: New Jerusalem". Here are some quotes from this book:

"Three princes of equal power – viz., Pon, Sin, and Mor – assist him, and these in our tongue we should call Power, Wisdom, and Love." – 'Wisdom' is called 'Sin'.

"In the most dignified position I saw a representation of Jesus Christ and of the twelve Apostles, whom they consider very worthy and hold to be great."

"But in the City of the Sun, while duty and work are distributed among all, it only falls to each one to work for about four hours every day. The remaining hours are spent in learning joyously, in debating, in reading, in reciting, in writing, in walking, in exercising the mind and body, and with play."

"They are rich because they want nothing, poor because they possess nothing; and consequently they are not slaves to circumstances, but circumstances serve them. And on this point they strongly recommend the religion of the Christians, and especially the life of the apostles."

"To strangers they are kind and polite; they keep them for three days at the public expense; after they have first washed their feet, they show them their city and its customs, and they honor them with a seat at the Council and public table, and there are men whose duty it is to take care of and guard the guests." – the three days suggests the last 2000 years, and Jesus also washed the feet of his disciples to show that he was washing their soles (i.e. souls).

"Oh, if you knew what our astrologers say of the coming age, and of our age, that has in it more history within 100 years than all the world had in 4,000 years before!" – 4000 years ago is when Abraham is thought to have lived.