The Jesus Way How can you as a man of the 21st Century understanding of Jesus message of the kingdom of God or the sovereignty of God and make it fruitful for their own lives and actions? The appeal and the scandal of the Kingdom of God News of Jesus lies in the fact that Jesus said the kingdom of God, the reign of God, is "close to induce come / arrived among you "by his actions, especially his exorcisms.
rallying his followers of Jesus from a group of women and men around him who are to some extent constitute the nucleus of the fractured kingdom of God. As equal brothers and sisters to deal with one another in brotherly love and motherly care for each other in existence under the care of the one and only father sky.
"self awareness" Jesus also connects the dawn of the Kingdom of God with his person. He seems, however, vehemently against all the traditional roles attributed to keep. In particular, he responded almost aggressively on the allegation that he was the Messiah. Jesus seems none of the ascribed roles for himself to have felt to be appropriate. However, Jesus claims to have spent, in a unique relationship to stand by God, which he calls confidential "Abba". He makes the subtle distinction between "my father" and "your Father" by which he barely two different "fathers", but means a different kind of relationship.
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After the failure of socialism, social utopias today is not just a good reputation. The utopia of a good, just order where people are caring and motherly in brotherly love to meet with confidence that the fate of all lies in the hands of a paternal reliable, courteous and helpful mighty power, this utopia is apparently not very popular.
other hand, brings the experience that the little ones, the needy who are deprived not live far from us but in our midst, approaching worryingly near to us. The Kingdom of God as a social utopia that is becoming once again topical. In view of the "justice gap" which has now reached our own areas of life, and it long before the slogan of "globalization" is a global problem, was the face of this deficit, the utopia is the kingdom of God certainly be back in momentum to take decisive action. To critical Distance and subversive critique of politics and economy and institutionalized religion. The utopia of the kingdom of God can mobilize networks organize social help to experiment with subversive alternative models of living together, etc.
Everywhere proves the truth of Jesus words, the rule of God is among you arrived, where people with reference to Jesus feel of Nazareth think undaunted and undeterred by all odds, principalities and powers of the trust in the good meaning of life, and act.
But will not disavow Jesus' words and actions even by its end on the cross? It may well be that in line with the caring fatherly-motherly Ground of all being involved, the patient heals, kinked teaches to walk upright, excluded brings back into the community. But are the "principalities and powers", contrary to the do not end up stronger?
Is that what we witnessed by the coming of Jesus as his supporters and followers' resurrection 'is an argument for us to make our concerns to Jesus' own? Can we believe that Jesus was really so in accordance with the nurturing ground of reality, his Abba, that we can start our own life decisions for him?
The real scandal is not the failure of Jesus on the cross. The trouble is the assertion of his Followers that Jesus was resurrected. This claim can not just take over obedient in faith, like a softened cult Christianity would have liked. "Resurrection" is not the starting point of the Jesus Way and the Kingdom of God work. No one sets out on this path with the shallow insurance in the ear, "Everything will be fine".
Those who dared to speak sometime after Jesus' death that Jesus lived and justified, whether these witnesses of his Resurrection came to this experience after having gone through a painful process of mourning and despair. It was not their fault, though the next generation cope with their grief as "proof" reinterprets that had to believe it.
"resurrection" means less of an event that Jesus has done, but rather a process that must work through suffering and those who are devoted to the work on the kingdom of God and following Jesus. It may work in some of these moments of "glorification" give. But one can also come back to the point where one can do is think of the prayer of Jesus on the cross. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me"
ie: the experience of the Living Lord, "the behind the symbol "resurrection" is, you can not just good faith or grudgingly accept. This experience must all things new in itself ever. And the experience of the first people Jesus reminds us: the path to "living" Jesus through the night of despair and sadness at the failure of the work in the kingdom of God. Who wants to make the Easter experience of the first witnesses, who must also pass through the experience of death and the failure of Jesus in his own failure and in its many deaths. Only at the end of a process of grief about it, he can then - God willing - say yes live, he and I with him.