Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

by N.T. Wright

The Church’s mission today is to be ambassadors of reconciliation, speaking truth to power, and seeing the powers reconciled to God. That does not collapse future hopes into present endeavours, but it does mean that our earthly labours are signs pointing ahead to a renewed creation. Our mission is not to be the ‘religious department’ of an empire. It is, rather, to build for the kingdom.