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“when we reintegrate what should never have been separated…we find that the gospels tell a different story… of God‘s kingdom being launched on earth as in heaven… in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus‘s followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.” p.204

Good book but probably could cut out half of it and get the same point across

The point of 1 Cor. 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny. It is the language Jesus spoke, & we are called to speak it so that we can converse with him. It is the food they eat in God's new world, & we must acquire the taste for it here and now.

Forgiveness is a way of life, God's way of life, God's way to life; and if you close your heart to forgiveness, why, then you close your heart to forgiveness.

Glorify God in your body because one day God will glorify the body itself. What is to be true in the future must begin to be true in the present, or it will be called into question whether you are really on track in the first place.