Everywhere the church is rediscovering Jesus' call to live under God's rule. What the world needs, however, is not just greater kingdom awareness but more kingdom action. How can the church stabilize families, revitalize neighborhoods, create just societies and a peaceful world? How can we strengthen our evangelistic outreach in a secular culture? How can we hasten the day when the kingdoms of this world will become

the kingdom of our Lord?

Howard Snyder wrestles with these issues in this biblically based manifesto. He looks first at key kingdom themes in Scripture: the peaceable kingdom, the Promised Land, the house of God, the city of God, justice for the poor, the age of Sabbath and the age of Jubilee. Then he explores the practical implications.

While the full flowering of the kingdom rests in God's hands, Snyder calls the church to live under God's rule today.

Howard A. Snyder is a teacher and writer, and part-time pastoral coordinator of the Irving Park Free Methodist Church in Chicago. He is also the author of The Problem of Wineskins, The, Community of the King, The Radical Wesley and Liberating the Church