Quotes about Kingdom

But the kingdom of grace is a kingdom of mercy, of pardon, of redemption, and of liberation from sins and the punishments for sins.

According to John 6:15, He [Christ] fled and would not let Himself be made king; before Pilate He confessed, "My kingdom is not of this world"; and He bade Peter, in the garden, put up his sword, and said, "He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.

As long as a person is in the world he cannot by his own efforts rid himself of sin, because the world is bent upon evil. The people of the world are the slaves of the devil. If we are not in the Kingdom of Christ, it is certain we belong to the kingdom of Satan and we are pressed into his service with every talent we possess.

Moses could not sing this way. He is a minister of prison, a teacher of drudgery, an originator of servitude, or, as Paul usually calls him, "A minister of death, sin, and sadness" (2 Cor. 3:9). In antithesis to him we wish to sing of a kingdom that is delightful, free, and full of joy.

Although the arms and kings of the world should serve the purpose of peace in the kingdom of Christ for the sake of teaching and propagating the Gospel, that kingdom should not be administered through laws. For laws do not make Christians. No, the Word and the sacraments — the Eucharist, Baptism, etc. — establish and build the kingdom of Christ.

Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.

He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.

And in the Kingdom, you receive when you give. You live only when you die. You become free when you submit. You advance when you fully surrender.

A Missional Community is a group of approximately 20 to 40 people who are seeking to reach a particular neighborhood or network of relationships with the good news of Jesus. The group functions as a flexible, local expression of the church and has the expressed intention of seeing those they are in relationship with become followers of Jesus with them. They exist to see God's Kingdom come to their friends and neighbors.

Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in the world, not the longevity of organizations.

As kingdom workers, our job is to learn to discern the season of each person's soul.

Jesus told his disciples that if they leveraged everything to seek the kingdom by following him, everything else would be thrown in as well! In other words, the secret to living the good life, to having it all, is seeking God's kingdom above everything else and becoming an apprentice of Jesus.