We live in a kairos moment of historic crisis and opportunity. Anything that can be shaken is being shaken; only that which cannot be shaken remains safe ground – the Kingdom of God. We can almost hear the rock of Daniel 2 gathering momentum, just like a divine striker ball on a billiard table about to hit the huddle. Cut out without human hands, it is hurling through the air, aiming straight for the brittle foundations of an increasingly dysfunctional and toxic world system, before it grows into a mountain that fills the earth.
Riots and protests hit the streets; political vanity and economic confusion abound; one virus-outbreak causes a pandemia that makes the nations tumbling towards a cliff like a drunkard. This includes the shaking of the man-made religion of Christianity. Its reputation is imploding, its shallowness exposed, its structures rendered inefficient; the strife of uncrucified, religious egos greedy for power, position and money is becoming obscene, and an ever increasing number of its members is on the run and says: God yes, church no! Jesus preached the Kingdom, what came was Christendom.
At the same time, many are rediscovering the relevance of the Kingdom of God, the Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus preached, and yearn for a form of fellowship, ministry and companionship with God and each other that reflects the Kingdom, not man-made religion. They are becoming increasingly homesick for a country they have never been, searching, like Abraham before, for a better Fatherland and the city with foundations whose architect and builder is God. All of this is in response to a sovereign act of God as he is in the process of setting up the Kingdom (Dan 2:44), a singular kairos moment in human history that cannot be overestimated.
This unique configuration calls for our unique response. We need to become an echo, a resonant cavity, a resounding chamber of a spiritual frequency, a divine initiative that has clearly begun to shake what is, and to call into being what is not yet. Many followers of Christ are not just questioning their own set-up, but are ready to leave for new shores, often not knowing where these shores are. If this is describing you – you are not alone!