A bit of a reminder of some things we have talked about in group.

Look at the picture of the circles.  Which orange circle is larger?

You have probably seen this before, or something like it:  a simple question with an obvious, but wrong, answer.  The reality is both orange circles are the same size.  They appear to us as one smaller, one larger.  But why?  The blue circles around the orange circles, the distracting context throws our judgement off, keeps us from seeing the reality.

Jesus said that he had come to preach the good news that “the Kingdom of God has come near.”  But where is it?  Where are we to look?  How are we to recognize it?

Jesus said he will return one day and establish a new Heaven and new Earth.  He also said the kingdom of Heaven is near; it is at hand.  Perhaps it is that there will be some kind of fulfillment or perfection of what we experience now:  our world, our lives, our selves set right, completed into what they were meant to be.  And that eternity has begun now.

The kingdom of God is near at hand.  We must learn to see it as Jesus’s does.  We must let him shape the way we see.

What is distracting us from seeing the Kingdom of God?

Where in the Bible do you get glimpses of what the Kingdom of God is like?