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I'm thinking of something a lot lately. In reading some good books lately on the subject, I'm kind of thinking I agree with the idea that the kingdom of God isn't exclusively what Dallas Willard refers to as a "gospel of sin management." By gospel of sin management is meant that the basic point of what Jesus came to do was to make sure that we can be forgiven of our sins and get into heaven when we die. The goal then is to be made good, and stay good until some future state that happens after we struggle through this life. In contrast, it is suggested that the "good news" that was announced as being at hand or available was in fact an interactive relationship with the king (God, Creator) that would be better than not experiencing that interactivity. If you look at the response to that announcement by Jesus, you see people falling over themselves to be a part of it. It was accompanied of course by demonstration in the human life of Jesus of what that interactivity looked like.