Bible study: Christ the King

At the autumn gathering the focus of our bible study was Christ the King. I've posted the references, quotes and questions in the resources section of the website: http://www.movement.org.uk/christ-king but also below.

Please use this thread to share any reflections from the bible study and carry on the conversation...

If you weren't at the gathering but would like to take part in the bible study and share some thoughts, please do!

• What images and words do you associate with kingship and kingdom?
• What do you understand by the ‘everlasting dominion’ and the kingdom that is ‘not from this world’?
• How do you respond to images of Christ the King?
• What do you think it means to ‘belong to the truth’?

Old Testament reading
Daniel 7. 9 – 10, 13 – 14

Gospel reading
John 18. 33 – 37

A reflection on truth

“Truth evidenced in Jesus is not an idea, not a concept, not a formulation, not a fact. It is rather a way of being in the world in suffering and hope, so radical and so raw that we can scarcely entertain it”
- Walter Brueggemann

A reflection on Christ the King

A throne for Christ the King
on the pavements with the lonely and homeless

A court for our God
in the food queues of the down and outs

A crown for our saviour
in a twist of thorns shaped for mockery

A robe for our Lord
with a blanket wound round a quiet doorway sleeper

A banquet for our Redeemer
in a broken loaf shared at a broken table in a broken world

A jewelled goblet for the use of Christ
in a bowl of water for Christ to use washing the feet of others

A dull glory
a tarnished grandeur
but a reign of grace
This is our God

© Roddy Hamilton, Abbotsford