Our lives are prophesying the Kingdom of God right now. When we follow Jesus, we are meant to be outposts for God’s way of life. So what are our hopes? What do we believe and know about the life that Jesus came to give us, the life more abundant? Imagine the world fully redeemed and restored and rescued. Go ahead. Imagine it. (And it’s okay, you can weep for all the loss and the pain and sorrow of our world as it is.) But then, we live into that envisioned life, right now, as exiles establishing a kingdom for a soon-coming king. We use our imaginations prophetically, and then we begin to
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