The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
Week 6: The Kingdom Come — Living as Agents of God's Reign
Read Chapter 6 (or Session 6) of The Divine Conspiracy. Key passages: Matthew 28:18–20; John 17:15–18; Revelation 21:1–5.
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Willard's final session is a call to step out of the safety of personal piety and into the world as genuine agents of the kingdom — people through whom God's reign becomes visible.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Willard argues that the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20) is not primarily a command to get people to make a decision for Christ, but to "make disciples" — people who are actually learning to live as Jesus lived. How does this reframing change your sense of what evangelism or mission should look like?
2.Willard envisions communities of disciples who become so saturated with kingdom life that they naturally overflow into the surrounding culture — not through programs or campaigns, but through the sheer reality of transformed lives. What would your church community look like if this were true of it?
3.Willard describes the person who is genuinely living in the kingdom as someone who has found the kingdom as a "treasure hidden in a field" — so valuable that they joyfully sell everything else to possess it. What in your own life competes most directly with that kind of wholehearted pursuit?
a.What are you holding onto that may be keeping you from the deeper life Willard describes?
b.What would it look like to release it — not as grim sacrifice, but as joyful exchange for something better?
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