Servant King seeks the kingdom of God
by receiving the good news of Jesus Christ
and living it out in all of life.

Seeking the kingdom of God...
Everyone lives for something, and everyone is looking for happiness. What will give us the safety and security that we crave? So often we think that the right relationship, the right vacations, or the right people in political office will give us the life that we long for. We naturally seek to satisfy this universal longing by establishing our own little kingdoms. A universal longing, however, needs a universal kingdom. Jesus graciously calls us to seek another kingdom altogether. Jesus calls us to seek for a kingdom that only he can bring. Only the kingdom that Jesus brings can satisfy the universal longing within each of us.

By receiving the good news of Jesus Christ...
As counterintuitive as it sounds, our seeking begins by receiving. When Adam sinned in the garden creation broke in every aspect. Adam’s relationship with God, with the rest of humanity, with creation, and with himself became marred by sin. A creation once marked by complete harmony, is now marked by fractures everywhere. So if we are to seek the kingdom (the restoration of creation), Scripture tells us that just as destruction came right through a human heart, so restoration runs right through human hearts as well. So we seek the kingdom by receiving the gospel of Jesus Christ. This gospel changes our relationship with guilt (justification by faith), sin (sanctification by faith), and mortality (glorification by faith).

And Living It Out in All of Life.
The gospel is a transformative power that works in the lives of individuals and through the lives of individuals, with implications rippling out to all of our immediate contexts and beyond through the renewed use of our resources, our influence, and our ambition. The gospel calls us to repentance, which has the potential to bring about dramatic change in our homes, our workplaces, and our community. We begin to see our resources, influence, and ambition not just as means to self-betterment, but in light of the gospel, they are to be used for the sake of others. Repenting with our possessions involves sharing them with the poor. Regarding our influence, repentance means engaging others with love and integrity. Repentance in our ambition means we won’t trample others. Growing more content in the gospel means we are free to see others not as obstacles to what we really want, but as people God intends for us to love.