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The Church’s mission today is to be ambassadors of reconciliation, speaking truth to power, and seeing the powers reconciled to God. That does not collapse future hopes into present endeavours, but it does mean that our earthly labours are
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“The Church’s mission today is to be ambassadors of reconciliation, speaking truth to power, and seeing the powers reconciled to God. That does not collapse future hopes into present endeavours, but it does mean that our earthly labours are signs pointing ahead to a renewed creation. Our mission is not to be the ‘religious department’ of an empire. It is, rather, to build for the kingdom.”
― Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
― Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
“Here we do well to remember that the whole purpose of Christian influence is not the pursuit of Christian hegemony but the giving of faithful Christian witness. Christian hegemony treats Christians as a type of invisible ruling class or an unspoken civil religion that demands public assent. In contrast, Christian witness is offered in a spirit of persuasion, rather than in a spirit of pursuing raw public power.”
― Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
― Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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