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The Story of Everything: How You, Your Pets, and the Swiss Alps Fit into God's Plan for the World
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“It is the reality of the kingdom of God—and the gospel purpose in it to glorify Christ—that should comfort Christians today, not the rising and falling of popular opinion or the ways of the Supreme Court or the majority votes in the Congress or the moral sanity of the president. All those people are sinners. We can root for them and persuade them and pray for them and hope for them—but we cannot hope in them, because none of them is not a sinner. Only Jesus Christ’s kingdom comes with perfect grace and peace and justice. And only Jesus Christ’s kingdom will remain.”
― The Story of Everything: How You, Your Pets, and the Swiss Alps Fit into God's Plan for the World
― The Story of Everything: How You, Your Pets, and the Swiss Alps Fit into God's Plan for the World
“The situation for the children of Israel is parallel to the situation the church finds itself in today. That situation is called exile.
Exile presupposes that we are in Babylon, not Jerusalem. So one of the major mistakes the church has made is expecting Babylon to act like Jerusalem, to be like Jerusalem, to recognize Jerusalem as an ideal. We see this in the way Christians keep trying to convince non-Christians that America is really a Christian nation and needs to start acting like it again.
The church's missional posture has reflected this expectation.
But the reality is that we should not expect Babylon to start acting like Jerusalem. The church should instead live like Jerusalem within Babylon (Matt. 5:14; John 17:14-19).”
― The Story of Everything: How You, Your Pets, and the Swiss Alps Fit into God's Plan for the World
Exile presupposes that we are in Babylon, not Jerusalem. So one of the major mistakes the church has made is expecting Babylon to act like Jerusalem, to be like Jerusalem, to recognize Jerusalem as an ideal. We see this in the way Christians keep trying to convince non-Christians that America is really a Christian nation and needs to start acting like it again.
The church's missional posture has reflected this expectation.
But the reality is that we should not expect Babylon to start acting like Jerusalem. The church should instead live like Jerusalem within Babylon (Matt. 5:14; John 17:14-19).”
― The Story of Everything: How You, Your Pets, and the Swiss Alps Fit into God's Plan for the World
