A better definition of God's kingdom changes everything about how we live today - no matter what the future holds.
Welcome to a better way of looking at the end: as the culmination of God's grand story. Jesus' most important word in describing the end is the Greek word telos. Telos is the rhythm of human history; the presence of God; and the plot, purpose, and completion of the story. The end is the kingdom of God, and the kingdom is here and now.
Sweet and Wilson show how many of the political problems plaguing modern Christianity are rooted in bad theology. God's kingdom is the present reality of the presence of God that gives us hope for today and tomorrow.
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Leonard Sweet is the author of more than seventy books, including recent works on preaching (Giving Blood), evangelism (Nudge), ecclesiology (So Beautiful) and discipleship (I Am a Follower). In demand worldwide as a speaker, Len often appears on "Most Influential Christians in America" listings and was selected by the top non-English Christian website as one of the "Top 10 Influential World Christians of 2010". Len works with doctoral students at four institutions: Drew University, George Fox University Northwind Seminary, and Evangelical Seminary (Kairos). In 2015 he launched his own homiletics resource at preachthestory.com, and in 2020 he founded his own publishing house: the Salish Sea Press. His "Napkin Scribbles" podcasts are available on leonardsweet.com or Spotify. He resides on Orcas Island in the San Juans in the Pacific Northwest.