Peter Wagner, perhaps the best-known leader in the worldwide “church growth” movement, also refers to the unanimous opinion of modern scholarship that the kingdom of God was the message of Jesus. Then he adds, I cannot help wondering out loud why I haven’t heard more about it in the thirty years I have been a Christian. I certainly read about it enough in the Bible…. But I honestly cannot remember any pastor whose ministry I have been under actually preaching a sermon on the Kingdom of God. As I rummage through my own sermon barrel, I now realize that I myself have never preached a sermon on
...more
