At the 1974 Lausanne Conference on World Evangelization, Michael Green asked rhetorically, “How much have you heard here about the Kingdom of God?” His answer was, “Not much. It is not our language. But it was Jesus’ prime concern.”25 Dr. I. Howard Marshall of the University of Aberdeen has commented, “During the past sixteen years I can recollect only two occasions on which I have heard sermons specifically devoted to the theme of the Kingdom of God…. I find this silence rather surprising because it is universally agreed by New Testament scholars that the central theme of the teaching of
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