Kingdom Come: Why We Must Give Up Our Obsession with Fixing the Church--and What We Should Do Instead [Paperback]

Reggie McNeal combines southern charm with gospel disruption. Just like the Jesus he follows, McNeal realigns God’s people with news of the Kingdom. This means everything gets reordered for the sake of God’s determination “to make all things new.” McNeal continues to point skillfully and faithfully to God’s essentials and priorities, which recast church and life in Kingdom terms.In Kingdom Come, Reggie McNeal masterfully does what we’ve come to expect of him: intersecting the path of our past with the reality of the present in order to guide and challenge us toward a new and better direction for the future. Why listen to him? He looks out the window, sees what most of us are too busy to see, and challenges us to new thinking.Reggie McNeal has written an exuberant, humble, clear, timely, nearly unassailable call-to-arms for Jesus followers to radically shift their focus from Churchianity to the Kingdom of God—life as God intends it. We must rediscover our essential task as partners in God’s redemptive mission for the world, or lose our claim to relevance in a culture that is quickly abandoning propositional Christianity that has been hermetically sealed in competitive silos of shrinking market share. Breaking free from brittle, self-imposed constraints, Reggie calls us to join hands and hearts in the common purpose of loving God by loving our neighbors in as many life-honoring ways as health and wholeness reveal.Kudos to Reggie McNeal, who is out to return us from Churchianity to Christianity. Read this book to understand that the church is not a club, but a launching pad; that discipleship’s about a direction (following Jesus), not a doctrine; and that the gospel story’s star is God, not your church. May Kingdom Comehelp us recalibrate so that we may live out the Abrahamic call to bless our cities and the nations.I appreciated reading Reggie McNeal’s KingdolÓ*