It’s Not Your Party, but You’re Invited We don’t usher in or build up the kingdom of God; we witness to it, with the cross before us as both our message and our means. It’s not our party. We are not the guests of honor. But we are invited to participate in what Christ has done and what Christ is doing. And we do so in the humble confidence that the kingdom of God “is not,” as one missionary statesman puts it, “a candle we kindle and carry, shielding its flame from the wind. It is the light that already shines on our radiant faces, turned toward that dawning glory that is already lighting up
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