the problem of kingship

although, if understood aright, it might be possible to call christ king.
if we do not understand aright, then the word leads us astray.
just as he transforms the law, so does he transform the nature of kingship:
turning it upside down.
he stands, not as king, but as brother.
[together we address God as father].
the christian community is less a kingdom
more a brotherhood.
(just as the moslems understand it come to think of it.)

one more thought on this:
it has always seemed essential to understand that,
whilst we are called individually to look inwards,
the christian brotherhood is called to look outwards;
always.