Tom's Wright wonderful book GOD IN PUBLIC is a breath of fresh air in a dealing with how the Bible confronts the principalities and powers of this world we live in. This present world kingdom is all about violence whereas Jesus's kingdom is about bringing heaven to earth. His kingdom is not of this world but it comes to leave no stone unturned in this world. The story here is not about Jesus died on the cross so that we could go to heaven. The actual story told is how Jesus died so that he might become the true king of Israel and of the whole world (p.53).
Even Pilate's power to crucify Jesus was given from above and not derived solely from man. All the man can do is kill you by the power of the state but notice how Jesus gives us the power to freely lay our own lives down for his kingdom like he modeled for us. Maybe we need today to shift our focus to where the early Christians concern was not on how people came to be in power but how those in power exercised that power. Rather than focusing on who gets elected or having to wait to the next election to do something to change things, how about holding our elected officials accountable all the time and not just during and election period.
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