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Kingdom come: Psalm 22:25-31; John 15:1-8
A strange king is likely to have a strange kingdom, and the kingdom of Jesus is no exception. The kingdom of Christ is a multilateral community, marked by a deep mutual love and an ongoing push to ever greater love. Our difficulty is not in envisioning the image of community. Our trouble comes with the necessity of confronting those situations in which community is broken, or worse, in which human beings are attacking other human beings. What are the international implications of these readings?
A sense of ending
In the 2,200 pages of Boswell's Life of Johnson, the protagonist's death is dispensed with in 36 pages.