Luke 1:32-33

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,  and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

From Background Notes [BN] for Apr 16th & 17th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The kingdom of God, made present by Jesus’ presence, moves the world forward through the dips of crisis toward the final form of God’s righteous rule, toward what theologians call the eschaton — the purposeful end.

To speak of politics in regard to Jesus is precisely to speak about the eschatology, the goal, of all things. In one decisive sense, Jesus is the goal of history; he is the new humanity lived out on the landscape of our world, both then and now. Kingdom language isn’t utopian, as if the goal were entirely unrealized except in the wishful thinking of human minds. On the contrary, the goal of Jesus’ politics has already been fulfilled in him. All that Jesus said and did stands in support of a new way of being human, not only in anticipation, but also in realization. Asking the question “Will the politics of Jesus work?” is paramount to asking “Did the life of Jesus work?” [BN,13]

Join us this week in Worship, Praise and Celebration at C1:
* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:15am
* Family Xperiance (FX) 10am