When the Kingdom of God Takes Root

[Exhortation from first service of Christ Church DC – Sunday July 13, 2025]

When the kingdom of God takes root in a particular region, it is always disruptive. This was the case when Joshua marched the people of God into Canaan’s land and giant’s blood seasoned the soil. This was the case in Babylon where Nebudchadnezzar went insane. Herod trembled when our Lord appeared in Bethlehem. In Jerusalem, Pilate’s wife lost sleep. In Ephesus, Aretemis railed. In Rome, Nero sharpened his sword against angel armies. Our Lord said that His kingdom was not of this world. But don’t mistake the genetive case. Christ’s kingdom does not run on the same steam as the kingdoms of this earth but it does run in the same place, on earth. In Daniel’s vision, the kingdom of God did not come as a rock to cozy up to the Roman Empire. It came to grind all pagan empires to gravel.

Because of our many and twisted conceits, man attempts to evade Christ’s kingdom. His first approach is to imagine the kingdom of God as a carnal one, assuming the Spirit of God needs a fundraising team. Worshipping at the vain and pitiful altar of the demos, this approach would tell Jesus that He has his throne by the will of the people. When that folly fails them, man tries to vaporize the kingdom of God, as if the living stones of God’s temple were the mist wafting forth from a humidifier. 

Our answer to the first error is that Christ funds His own kingdom, and that by His own blood. And our answer to the second is that Christendom is harder than the many marble pillars that mark our nation’s capitol. The option before you is quite plain. It is Christ or chaos. Christ or destruction. Build your life, family, vocation, laws, your all, on the rock that is Christ. Or be crushed by that Rock. 

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