In his epic tome The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder offers some thoughts that could help guide us on our day trip to Capernaum this Sunday:

If our lostness consists in our subjection to the rebellious powers of a fallen world, what then is the meaning of the work of Christ? Subordination to these Powers is what makes us human, for if they did not exist there would be no history nor society nor humanity. If then God is going to save his creatures in their humanity, the Powers cannot simply be destroyed or set aside or ignored. Their sovereignty must be broken. This is what Jesus did, concretely and historically.