He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.