Redeemer Church

Kingdom Culture
Week 1
Pastor Dave Brown

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
- Pete Drucker

"Repentance was what Israel must do if her exile is to come to an end."
- N.T. Wright

"If repentance carries the tone of 'what Israel must do if her fortunes are to be returned', it can also have a much more down-to-earth ring: to abandon revolutionary zeal."
- N.T. Wright

"The repentance for which Jesus called, then, was not at all like the regular repentance of individual sinners when they recognized their sin and underwent the normal Jewish practices for restitution. That could take place, in principle, at any time in Israel’s history…Jesus’ summons was more radical by far…Jesus was urging his compatriots to abandon a whole way of life, and to trust him for a different one."
- N.T. Wright

The good news is about the living God overcoming all the powers of the world to establish his rule of justice and peace, on earth as in heaven, Not in heaven later on. And that victory is won not by superior power of the same kind but by a different sort of power altogether…The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love.
- N.T. Wright

Stop trying to bring about the promises of God through your own effort and worldy means.