Missio Dei, Realm of God

God's Realm is the theological core of Jesus' preaching. As the evangelists portray it, his teaching and miraculous deeds attest that the authority and reality of God's Empire are present in Jesus Christ as Lord of the Realm. Jesus and the Dominion of God are inseparable.

So -- what can be said of the virtual abandonment of the centerpiece of Jesus teaching? How and why is a motif attested some 125 times either ignored on one hand, or else pushed into the future on the other? Given the identification of the King and the Kingdom, what might this anomaly mean in terms of our relationship to God? How meaningful is our confession of Christ's incarnation apart from the Realm of God? And how might our neglect of God's Dominion relate to our calling to be as the presence of Jesus Christ in the world? Above all, what implications might this hold for the Missio Dei?

Let us discern Christ and shape normative, corporate living around him.

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