We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdomโฆgoes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always โ as Paul puts it in one of his letters โ bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.
N. T. WrightChristian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
N. T. WrightBy all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
N. T. WrightWe have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.
N. T. WrightThe logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.
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