attempt to defend the point by appealing to the parable of the wheat and the weeds (Matt 24:13–29, 36–43). But Jesus explicitly tells us that this is a parable of the kingdom. And, as we shall see, it is a parable designed, in part, to establish a certain stance on the present and the future, not to give us a profile of the church. Indeed, that is the third arena where errors about the kingdom are not uncommon: tensions between the biblical descriptions of inaugurated eschatology (the kingdom has