To live biblically is not to re-create the past but to resonate in the present. The church “resounds” to God’s glory not by replicating the self-same sound again but by filling space and time with booming, echoing sympathetic vibrations—sound and shock waves from the big bang of resurrection. Subsequent church performances resonate with the script when they “ring true”—to use the motto of my Cambridge college—even at a distance.
