We are stranger and exiles in the present time, that’s true. But we are not losers. There will be wars and rumors of wars, literal and cultural, but Jesus is on the move. We fight, but we fight from triumph, not from defeat. Jesus, in announcing the kingdom, declared that he was “anointed.” If we are joined to him, we share that anointing (1 John 2:20). That’s what it means to be Christians, to be the church.
