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Kingdom Come: Why We Must Give Up Our Obsession with Fixing the Church--and What We Should Do Instead is unavailable, but you can change that!

There’s a reason Jesus taught us to pray “Thy Kingdom come . . .” and not “Thy church come.” The church clearly plays an important role in God’s plans. It was established by Christ, and he is its Head. But have we put too much emphasis on the church? Have we confused a means of participating in God’s Kingdom with the Kingdom itself? In Kingdom Come, church ministry consultant Reggie McNeal...

The missional understanding of church opens the door to a reevaluation of the relationship between the church and the Kingdom, with an expanded view of God’s work in the world. For missional thinkers, church is a verb, a way of being in the world. It is not a place where certain religious rites are conducted. Nor is the church a vendor of religious goods and services.[1] The notion of the church as a place, or as a dispenser of programs, is a relic of an era of Christendom that is rapidly diminishing,
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