If Jesus embodies God's dreams
for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the
people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the
temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down
religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.