Holy Spirit and HIs chastising and disciplne as He cleanses us and makes us vessels worthy of the Kings service. Anyone who thinks they can enter into the Kingdom of God and all it has while still operating under the dictates of their self will is deceiving themselves. When we have surrenderd all to Jesus and go and obey His commands, the chief among these, to go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel and be witnesses to all that Christ is and to all that He has done, then we may see the manifestions of the power and the authority of His Kingdom here in this world, not by any work of ours but by the working of the Holy Spirit operating through us, totaly surrendered individuals that have nothing off themselves save that which Chirst alone has entrusted to them. Julian, one thing I'd understand by Kingdom is that it is the opposite of a very narrow view of evangelism which would present the gospel as a ticket to heaven that need not much affect people's current living. And/or would extract them from 'the world' to live in an isolated ivory tower of church meetings for the rest of their lives. For us to extend the Kingdom, ie God's rule in people's lives, ie share the good news, we would need to cease to hide behind the walls of our ivory towers, and be very considerably integrated into wider society as far as possible and appropriate, building