The end of the world as we know it

An interesting article in the latest "relevant" issue:

We can be so excellent in relating the details of one scene in the Jesus drama, that no one knows the whole script. The good news becomes the "good sound bite" as the story is reduced from a cosmic epic to "The idiot's guide to the things Jesus said and did".

Tractor beaming the Jesus event down to the level of my culture turns the story into a convenient parody, like depicting an anglo republican Jesus or a revolutionary, AK 47-toting Jesus or a big-therapist-in-the-sky Jesus or Venture Capitalist Jesus, all of whom look like us.
Most of the time, this captured Jesus seems on a mission that amounts to helping us live the american dream (suv's, lattes and botox) with heaven as the big exclamation point at the end. So is that the kingdom of God?

The kingdom of God is the only real world, Jesus came to announce the demise of everything else. He did not go to the cross and raise from the dead so we could live more successfully in a world that is temporary. Rather, his purpose was to make it possible for us to live right now in another eternal world that is breaking in all around us if we have the eyes to see it.

The kingdom of Me + God? or The kingdom of God + Me?

- earl creps