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loving our way into the Kingdom

You can't think your way into the Kingdom of Heaven.  You can only love your way into the Kingdom.

And love is always aimed at a vision of the good, a vision of human flourishing.  Love is always desiring a particular vision of life together -- of a Kingdom.

So what sort of Kingdom are you desiring, loving and craving?  That's the question that being a Christian poses

For me, the Kingdom of God looks like how Jesus moved through the world.  That's the vision of the Kingdom I'm loving my way toward.  In that sense, Jesus is my aesthetic, how I judge was is beautiful and ugly in my life and in the world.

Christianity is, in theological language, the practice of an incarnational aesthetics.

Loving your way toward something beautiful, loving your way into the Kingdom of God.