Will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the age to come eternal life — the hundredfold return is received in this present age in the kingdom community: the family of God replaces the family of origin at a hundred-to-one ratio. The list of what is received in the community (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields) mirrors the list of what was left — but the list is received without fathers (there is one Father in heaven). And along with persecutions: the persecutions are part of the present-age return, not merely a cost — they are the mark of the kingdom's genuine discipleship.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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