Thy kingdom come: living the Lord's Prayer.

The Christian Century | March 12, 1997| | Copyright

What are we praying for when we pray for God's kingdom to come? The second main petition in the Lord's Prayer -- "thy kingdom come" -- rules out any idea that the kingdom of God is a purely heavenly (that is, "otherworldly") reality. Thy kingdom come, we pray, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Sort out the familiar, but technical, terms. "Heaven" and "earth" are the two interlocking arenas of God's good world. Heaven is God's space, where God's writ runs and God's future purposes are waiting in the wings. Earth is our world, our space. Think of the ...

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