The Sabotaging of the Kingdom of God

In any study of the Kingdom of God, the mission of the Kingdom of God inevitably becomes the focal point of the study.  After all, the Kingdom of God was ushered into the realm of God’s creation as a mission of God through the incarnation of Immanuel.

So, what happened to this mission of the Kingdom of God?

The continuing proliferation of religious sects and denominations within both Catholic and Protestant religious institutions have pretty much killed the mission of the Kingdom of God.

With each sect and denomination arrives selective doctrinal preferences.  These doctrinal preferences, eventually, divide the mission of the Kingdom of God into slices like slices off an apple pie.  Until that small slice is made into a whole pie all by itself.

Evangelism pie.
Social action pie.
Evangelism with a slight tang of social action pie.
Social action with a slight tang of evangelism pie.
Half evangelism, half social action pie.
Double layered, evangelism on top, social action on bottom, pie.
Double layered, social action on top, evangelism on bottom, pie.

Oh yeah, then, there’s the branding game.

Wholistic mission.
Holistic mission.
Integral mission.
Transformational development.
Integrative mission.
Integrated mission.

What happened to the person who ushered the Kingdom of God who sought to personify being the Harvest so that all of God’s creation can receive abundant lives?

This, after all, is the mission of the Kingdom of God.

There is no quantitative measurement to the goodness the Kingdom of God seeks to offer people.

There is no qualitative measurement to the goodness the Kingdom of God seeks to offer people.

There is only the metaphorical image of the Kingdom of God bringing peace and good tidings to all of God’s creation.

There is no pie.

There is no slice of any pie at all.

There is only the Kingdom of God through which the personification of the harvest is to walk among all of God’s creation, and seeking nothing but to bring peace and good tidings.

This is the mission of the Kingdom of God.

If we can’t understand that, leave it alone and let it be.

Calling the Kingdom of God by any other name will not change the core of the Kingdom of God.

Wholistic mission.
Holistic mission.
Integral mission.
Transformational development.
Integrative mission.
Integrated mission.

“Bah, humbug,” as Ebenezer Scrooge would say.

And it could very well be that God feels the same way towards how Christian religious institutions (Catholic and Protestant alike) have killed the mission of the Kingdom of God.

Meanwhile, away from the aesthetics that these religious institutions have decorated around the Kingdom of God, the Spirit of God continues to walk among His/Her creation stopping here and there to confront those who killed the mission of the Kingdom of God.