Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.
N. T. Wrightthink about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
N. T. WrightGod's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
N. T. WrightBut if Christians donโt get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
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