Kingdom of God

I have been thinking lately about the Christian community as opposed to the individual Christian experience. I wonder if we have lost a precious gift that God intended us to have by not focusing enough on community and too much on the individual. As far as I know, Jesus never used the phrase "accept me as your personal savior", but you hear and read Christians use that phrase a lot. I never hear anyone really use the phrase "kingdom of God". In fact, who uses the word "kingdom" at all? A kingdom is a place where the King is central and everyone lives under the King's rule. That doesn't sound appealing at first to us individualistic capitalists. But if you know and love the King, the one who made every cell in your body and considers you his most beloved masterpiece in the universe, the one who loves you so much He died for you, then living in His kingdom becomes something quite amazing, doesn't it? I want to live there. I am living there now to a certain extent, but not in its entirety, because I still pray in the Lord's prayer, "your kingdom come, your will be done on earth at it is in heaven."

Excerpt from "Book of Faith Lenten Journey"
In the gospels, the word kingdom appears some 123 times; Jesus uses the word 98 times. It is the heart of his message. Mark - the earliest of all the gospels - records the beginning of Jesus' ministry this way: "Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news." And the good news, of course, is that the kingdom is for everyone. the only ones excluded are those who exclude themselves.