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Building the kingdom is for Imperialists

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kstarkenburg
Mar 11 2002
08:53 am

I’m not sure I quite understood your last sentence, but in regard to the rest of your response, I’m with you all the way. With one exception. My initial thrust – and continuing point – is that you’ll not find the command “Build the kingdom of God” in any canonical text I know. At least, I haven’t found it. Now, of course, I’m not advocating for our speech to be outcome of internal biblical repetitions machines, but our language needs to have a consonance with Scripture. I think “kingdom building” or any clause in its semantic domain is a phrase dissonant with Scripture. As such, I claim that it will damage us in the long run.