“The message of the kingdom was good news, an announcement of what God is doing rather than of what man is required to do, although the latter is not exclude from the phrase.  To preach the kingdom of God is to announce a divine action.  This is of course thoroughly evangelical, and if we have possibly refrained from preaching about the kingdom because the phrase had been taken over and interpreted wrongly by the ‘Social Gospellers’, we ought to mount a take-over bid and restore the face value of this rich currency.”

–  Howard Marshall, “Preaching the Kingdom of God,” Expository Times 89 (1977): 14-15