Bringing the Kingdom
eBook - ePub

Bringing the Kingdom

Progressive Reflections on Scripture

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bringing the Kingdom

Progressive Reflections on Scripture

About this book

People have used the Bible for a variety of purposes over the course of the past two thousand years; unfortunately, many of those uses have reinforced power structures and systems that oppress and dominate those without privilege. Worst of all, people have used the Bible as a means to divide humanity into those who are worthy of salvation and those who are not. However, if we look at the lectionary readings, especially the gospels, we can see that God actively seeks to undercut and subvert systems of power, and God calls Christians to do the same. Through an examination of Jesus's teachings, with support from a wide variety of other parts of the Bible, we can see that ideas of social justice and true liberation run throughout God's message to humanity. Rather than focusing on who gets into heaven and who doesn't, Jesus seeks to proclaim God's love for all humanity. By reading the Bible this way and attempting to live up to Jesus's call, we can seek to bring the kingdom to our world, as it is in heaven.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. It’s the End of the World As We Know It
  4. The Harbinger of Things to Come
  5. Do You Hear?
  6. A Song for Progressives
  7. More Than a Good Story
  8. Taking Action
  9. Border Crossing
  10. Tipping Points
  11. Good News
  12. Hearing the Call
  13. Exceptionalism
  14. Not Pie in the Sky By and By
  15. Hide It Under a Bushel? No!
  16. Are We Sure We Want Transformation?
  17. It’s Just That Simple
  18. True Transfiguration
  19. Spiritual Practices
  20. The Real Problem of Evil
  21. The State of the World
  22. Turning Over the Tables
  23. Why Evil Exists
  24. Reconciliation
  25. The Walking Dead
  26. Street Theater
  27. The Body and the Blood
  28. The Cross
  29. The Empty Tomb
  30. Having Faith
  31. Being Human
  32. Abundant Living
  33. New and Improved
  34. When the Spirit Moves
  35. Looking in the Right Place
  36. Nobody Likes Me
  37. The Wind Blows All the Walls Down
  38. Not Going It Alone
  39. Breaking the Law
  40. How to Stand Up
  41. Not What We Want to Hear
  42. Being Neighborly
  43. Bringing the Kingdom
  44. We Can’t Always Get What We Want
  45. Getting and Spending
  46. Feeding the Hungry
  47. Not the Warm and Fuzzy Jesus
  48. Surely He Knows Better
  49. Who Do We Say He Is?
  50. What to Worship
  51. What We’ve Lost
  52. Ending the Cycle
  53. Radical Grace
  54. Doubts and Questions
  55. Hearing the Margins
  56. Not One of Us
  57. Questions Even Jesus Didn’t Answer
  58. Can’t Buy Us Love
  59. Always Reforming
  60. The Heart of God
  61. A False Choice
  62. We Shall See
  63. The Generous Widow
  64. True Community
  65. The Sheep and the Goats
  66. Books and Movies I’ve Read and Seen That Have Helped Me