The Lord has called us as humanity into a time of relearning. The church wants revival, the government wants reform, but the Lord is calling for a relearning. Pride is the inability to be teachable and pride is the end of our learning. Humility keeps us teachable, flexible and relatable, for we are always learning something new about God and His kingdom.

When a narrative is echoed over and over again it gets established. The narrative can become so entrenched in us that it actually becomes culture. Once a narrative is culture it is baked into our foundation and we believe it is truth that cannot be uprooted. The Pharisees were so baked in the Law of Moses, that Judaism became cultural, so when Jesus showed up, they rejected Him and His narrative of the kingdom of God.

A narrative that has become cultural for much of the church in the West and probably worldwide is the idea of a dark future, a gloom and doom end, a rapture theology. The challenge is, it is baked into so many people if you say anything different, they won’t, can’t or don’t want to hear it. But this narrative is one, not biblical and two, not beneficial to anyone.

Proverbs 2:20-22 says, “You will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.”

We must relearn many things we have been taught in church, for the kingdom of God is at hand. The kingdom of God has entered a building stage in our generation and it will be built according to the biblical pattern, not the seminary one, not the left behind series one, not the cultural/denominational church one. The kingdom of God is a city whose builder and maker is God. God has the blueprints and He is starting to build again.