It is not that God’s kingdom of love...

It is not that God’s kingdom of love did not exist before Jesus, or that it had been postponed somehow. No. But before the incarnation its availability had, in the nature of things, been restricted and mediated through a special people and a special religious class. In Jesus’ person all that changed. In Jesus the doors were thrown wide open: “Whosoever will may come.” The kingdom of God’s…