The church needs to be reminded of the way it has itself become the manifestation of the hope of Christ’s coming again in glory. We can take courage from the fact that God has actually willed us to be witnesses of the incarnation of Christ, the hope of the world. In the present, God’s Word breaks the silence as his people bear witness to their hope. When the church does this, it impresses even the skeptics; in a recent issue of the New York Review of Books,
