God with all your mind” (Mark 12:30; par. Matt. 22:37). Second, because Jesus devoted himself so energetically to the proclamation of the kingdom, we ought to take the same kingdom seriously or at least make the effort to understand what he meant by it. Consider the alternative. If we are content to be cheerfully agnostic on the overriding point of Jesus’s message, what does that say about our commitment to Jesus’s other teachings? What does it say about how closely we are following? No, the work