In the book, “The Upside-Down Kingdom”, author Donald Kraybill delivers a message about the kingdom of God being upside down compared to the kingdom of this world. I love how he has a lot of scriptures instead of just his opinion. This book started out by describing the traits that make the kingdom of God upside down and about detours people have to make. According to Kraybill we make these detours to get around Jesus and his core message. The kingdom of God is not separate, but in the middle of the world. “God calls us to turn our backs to the kingdoms of this world and embrace an upside down world,” (Kraybill 32). In the next chapter Kraybill describes Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, which brings in three points, political, religious and economic. These are the sub points to Kraybills thesis. According to Kraybill there are five symbols related to the temptation which include: bread, devil, desert, mountain, and temple. “The temptation points to a right-side-up kingdom encompassing the three big social institutions of his day: political (mountain), religious (temple), and economic (bread).” (Kraybill 33). The political temptation goes with the historical context of …show more content…
Jubilee was the restoration of three things: land, slaves and debts. A question that brings to my attention is does our beliefs shape our financial lifestyle? Or is that flipped as well? Wealth is dangerous and should be measured by compassion not money.. Kraybill states that “Our economic commitments often distort our reading of the scripture and divert us around the biblical teaching on wealth. We’re tempted to lift verses out of their context and twist their meaning to ‘bless’ our personal economic philosophy. In addition to spinning Scripture our way, we often use non biblical folk wisdom to rationalize affluence.” (Kraybill 120). Wealth completely changes things and it’s what you do with it that really determines genuine faith in an upside kind of