Principle of The Least
Different people have different ideas about what the Kingdom of God is. It often depends on what their church denomination tells them. In Jesus' time, people also had different ideas of the Kingdom, and often they compared it with grand things. That's how I imagine them to have thought of the Kingdom. Like how people today think of great things. Great has to be big, moneyed, spectacular and liked, like how people always opt to go large with their fries, Coke, chicken, etc. Image by StockSnap from Pixabay . Generally, regardless of the time in history, people have always thought that big is correct. Big is power. Big is success. So even churches aim to be big, moneyed and peopled because they think these things are success measurements. They're "proofs" that God is blessing the ministry. And most church people prefer going to these big churches and support them to share in the blessings. It's easy to imagine how people and their religious leaders in Jesus...