On a Knife's Edge
The words “The Kingdom of God ” sound far away and otherworldly to many of us . For a lot of people this phrase translates to “Hea ven ”; it is only about a world outside of this one. We don’t think it is something immediate or available for us now. Yet Jesus means something very different from this idea. N.T. Wright says this: The gospels are all about ‘the kingdom of God ’, and God’s kingdom or kingship isn’t about another world to which we might escape from this present one. God’s kingdom is precisely his ‘in-charge-ness’ ... The point was not that people would leave this world and go somewhere called ‘heaven’ instead, but that the life, the love and the power of ‘heaven ’, of God’s domain, would become a reality here on earth. 1 What does this mean in a practical sense for those of us wh...