“The widespread assumption today that ‘the kingdom of God’ denotes another realm altogether, for instance that of the ‘heaven’ to which God’s people might hope to go after their death, was not on the first-century agenda. When Jesus spoke about God’s kingdom, and taught his followers to pray that it would arrive ‘on earth as in heaven’, he was right in the middle of first-century Jewish theocratic aspirations…so as…to tell the story of how Israel’s God becomes king of the whole world.”   N.T. Wright When I was a kid, I loved to play “King of the Mountain” with my friends.  We would go to aRead More →