Let’s work instead for something new, and for something old: the kingdom of God, on earth as it is in heaven, gathered in churches of transformed people, reconciled to one another, on mission with one another, holding together the authentic gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s avoid the temptation to keep saying the same thing we’ve always said, except louder and angrier. And let’s avoid the temptation of retreating into our subculture, or of disentangling the gospel from our concern for human well-being. If we do not surrender to the spirit of the age—and we must not—we will be thought to be
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