Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.