The Kingdom of God
Jesus came to tell of of a better world: a Kingdom of God where justice abounds and everyone is free. We pray for and work toward the coming of that kingdom "on earth as it is in heaven."
Key Insights
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Central to Mission
The Church's mission is to bring about the Kingdom through the witness of our daily lives and the sharing of the Good News with others. |
Already Breaking Through
As Jesus told us in his day, the Kingdom is already present and growing on earth. The Church is part of of the kingdom, and works toward its fulfillment. |
We Cooperate In Its Coming
We cannot bring about the kingdom ourselves as humans, as it is God's kingdom and it is God who makes it a reality through our cooperation. It is through the Holy Spirit that we participate in bringing it about. |
Quotations
As an evangelizer, Christ first of all proclaims a kingdom, the kingdom of God; and this is so important that, by comparison, everything else becomes "the rest," which is "given in addition." Only the kingdom therefore is absolute and it makes everything else relative. The Lord will delight in describing in many ways the happiness of belonging to this kingdom (a paradoxical happiness which is made up of things that the world rejects), the demands of the kingdom and its Magna Carta, the heralds of the kingdom, its mysteries, its children, the vigilance and fidelity demanded of whoever awaits its definitive coming. |
The proclamation of the Kingdom of God and salvation for all people through Jesus Christ is at the very core of the Church’s mission and the essential aspects of evangelization. Disciples Called to Witness: The New Evangelization
Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, USCCB |
