““By kingdom, Jesus means: God’s Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. In our terms today, Jesus was ultimately talking about the Church as the partial and imperfect manifestation of the kingdom of God. What this means is so important: When Jesus was talking about the kingdom of God, he was thinking of concrete realities on the earth, he was thinking of the Church being the embodiment of the Jesus dream, and he was thinking of you and I living together in a community as we should.””
