Jesus teaches the same pattern in prayer. The kingdom is not a slogan but a petition: “Your kingdom come.” We ask for daily bread and for forgiven sin because we are creatures, dependent, tempted, and in need. The prayer is plain enough for children, yet deep enough to reorder our desires.

If Christ is King, then our ordinary habits become a kind of civic training. What we rehearse in the home, what we speak to one another, what we do when no one applauds, all of it forms what we later demand of the world. The Church’s political imagination is first taught in worship and in kitchens.