In this outstanding sermon Glynn Cardy examines how proclaiming Jesus as king is not only wrong but how power has co-opted his good news that would transform this world. "If there is one thing that every scholar agrees on about Jesus it is this: he was no king, had no pretensions to kingship, and would have been absolutely dumbfounded and dismayed by the Church’s regal elevation of him in the centuries after his death. ‘Christ the King’ is stirring stuff in Handel’s Alleluia Chorus, but it hardly fits with the gospel picture of Jesus the man who wouldn’t be king. Instead of singing “King of Kings, Lord of Lords”, it would be much more accurate to sing ‘Rebel of rebels, misfit of misfits’." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=447&id=898.