This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.