This has two important things to say to development workers. First, God brings the kingdom; it is neither our task nor that of our transformational development. We must not put the weight of building the kingdom on our shoulders; we cannot carry it, nor are we expected to. Second, the sign of the kingdom is the church, the community of faith, not the development worker or the development agency. Somehow development workers must understand themselves as part of the church, not just an NGo or some “para-church” organization vaguely or disinterestedly related to the church.
