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Challenging the passive, “meek-and-mild” perception of Jesus still taught in many churches today, The Upside-Down Kingdom brings us back to Jesus’ teachings as perceived in his culture and context. Revealing a kingdom ruled by God where death brings life, the last are first, and victory is attained only by giving oneself up, Donald Kraybill presents Christ’s “Kingdom of God” as a social impetus...

structures to accomplish its mission. Servant structures include the whole gamut of organized church bodies and programs. They encompass denominations, schools, liturgical traditions, mission agencies, publishing ventures, camps, and, of course, committees, commissions, traditions, and programs galore. These are the social skins, the servant structures the church creates to do its work. They are not, however, the church or the kingdom. The kingdom transcends the church in two ways. It existed before
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