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This Beautiful Mess | Rick McKinley

by Matt McCarnan on June 19th, 2007

This Beautiful MessRick McKinley. This Beautiful Mess: Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom of God. Multnomah, 2006. 192 pp.

Discovering the Kingdom

When Jesus was on earth, He painted a radical vision for His followers. He called it the “kingdom of God.” His kingdom is a heavenly reality that lands smack in the middle of everyday life. Even here, Jesus said–in the harshness and mess of earth–His kingdom is the way things really are. His announcement was nothing less than revolutionary.

Maybe it was the clash of opposites or the paradox that Jesus’ kingdom exists in parallel with many lesser kingdoms, but either way, His followers were not quick to pick up on the revolution.

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