Dear Readers: I invite you to read this work about the  

kingdom of God with an open heart and mind and a willingness 

to entertain new ideas, to chew on them to see if they have  

merit and if they will take root in your being. Even if you''re  

able to open up just a little, that might be sufficient to begin  

to expand the way you think about God and the kingdom and 

your place in it. These ideas are grounded in Jesus''s sayings  

about the kingdom in the Gospels with the addition of my own 

experience as a long-time follower of Christ, plus what I have 

been given to understand in the course of writing this book.