Thanks to @drose for this great commentary on how the preoccupation of earthly powers affects their response to the good news of the Kingdom of God. As always, we try to assimilate the Kingdom of God so it is subject to our own kingdoms.

I just bumped into this quote:

“When the Greeks got the gospel, they turned it into a philosophy;

when the Romans got it, they turned it into a government;

when the Europeans got it, they turned it into a culture;

and when the Americans got it, they turned it into a business.” Richard Halverson