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"LUKE 12 REFLECTION - Giving You the Kingdom" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 58: We are invited into the Reign of God to see everything through a different perspective & to live an entirely different way.
"LUKE 12 REFLECTION - Giving You the Kingdom" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 58: We are invited into the Reign of God to see everything through a different perspective & to live an entirely different way.
First a true story:
There was a remote village that was a closed society. This village, as the story goes, was in the rain forest in South America.
They were close enough to civilization that they had local government money. They used this money to buy and trade and live in their village.
One day, thieves came and stole most of the money from the village treasury.
The people of the village spent time discerning what they should do in response. What they did was make their own money. They no longer used government-issued money. The reason was that they only did business with each other and no thief would come and steal something that was worthless beyond their borders.
Ingenius!
We wrestle with money in our lives.
Our society is all about money.
We use money language to talk about everything in life.
We put great value on saving and spending time with loved ones.
We invest energy into our calling.
We all have to plan for retirement and other normal things.
We are vested into the government-issued money of our day. And that’s okay! The disciples were, too.
What Jesus is inviting us into is something counter-cultural.
The Kingdom of God is a new way to understand all of reality.
We can gain, save, and give all the money we can and still participate fully in the Kingdom of God.
But the way we do all of life will change when we accept the Kingdom life Jesus offers us here and now.
The way I talk about the Kingdom of God is to refer to it as the Reign of God. The word of Kingdom is better understood as the Reign or Rule of God.
When God is in charge of our lives in every way, we are living into the Kingdom. It’s a different way to do everything and see everyone and even see ourselves.
But…we can’t have it both ways.
We have to choose to let go of our whole life and our family traditions (and sometimes family values) and be willing to let people walk away from relationship with us because they are too committed to another Reign and Rule in their life.
To be a disciple, we must choose the Kingdom over everything else.
May this invitation bring you peace…because, when you live by the Reign of God’s will and way, everything changes for the way of Life as Jesus Christ defines it. Is there any better way??
Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).
Music by The Muse Maker
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