Week 3: Bring the Kingdom

Jesus’ prayer, “Your kingdom come, your will be done,” confronts our deep commitment to ourselves, expressed as self-love, self-rule, and self-expression. Modern individualism, politics, and consumer culture shape this bent.

While Jesus’ confrontation feels distant to the comfortable, it resonates powerfully with those who live with their “backs against the wall.” Drawing on Howard Thurman’s idea and its relevance to the Romans of Jesus’ day, the teaching demonstrates that Christ offers a way to get one’s back off that wall. God’s Kingdom. It begins within, through surrender to Jesus. This surrender is daily, personal, and transformative, capturing our hearts, relationships, and world as Jesus’ reign moves outward from within us.