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Kingdom Come: How Jesus Wants to Change the World
Authors: Allen Wakabayashi
ISBN: 0-8308-2363-8
Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press
Number of pages: 179
Type of cover: Soft Cover
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The Kingdom of God! This was the theme of Urbana 03, and the central theme of Jesus' ministry. Jesus continually "proclaimed the kingdom of God," provoking much passion among the crowds following him. But what is the "Kingdom of God," anyway? Allen Wakabayashi, an InterVarsity director in Illinois, addresses this question.
We don't have real kings these days - not absolute monarchs comparable to Jesus' vision. "Kingdom of God" then, is a difficult concept for today's Westerners. But we need to try. Because, as Wakabayashi demonstrates, if we examine the Bible's teaching on the Kingdom of God, we will invariably be astonished. Jesus claims absolute mastery over his universe, and absolute obedience from those who call themselves by his name ("Christians").
InterVarsity press writes:
Christianity is not merely about isolated individuals going to heaven. It's about God transforming the entire world and making things right. Sicknesses will be healed, sins will be forgiven, injustice will be eradicated, and all creation will be redeemed. But this is not merely a distant future. It's happening now through what Jesus came to establish--the kingdom of God.
Allen Wakabayashi reawakens you to the world-changing reality of the kingdom of God. With clear, biblical insight, he unpacks what Jesus proclaimed about the good news of the kingdom and spells out the implications for you today.
Focusing on the kingdom of God will revolutionize how you live out your faith, how you think about your world and how you explain the good news about Jesus. Ultimately, understanding yourself as a citizen of the kingdom will empower you to be one of God's change agents in the world.
God is at work to restore everything to be the way he intended it to be, and
you can be a part of what he is doing! Get a glimpse of the kingdom coming,
and experience his will being done--on earth as it is in heaven.
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