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“Do we see our wealth and resources as divine rewards merely for our own enjoyment or as equipment God has given us to extend his love and justice to others?”

“Far from sitting on clouds playing harps, as people often imagine, the redeemed people of God in the new world will be the agents of his love going out in new ways, to accomplish new creative tasks, to celebrate and extend the glory of his love.”

I may regret this decision.

“Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the last day, they believed that God had called them to work with him, in the power of the Spirit, to implement the achievement of Jesus and thereby to anticipate the final resurrection, in personal and political life, in mission and holiness.”

“Spiritual formation is not something that may, or may not, be added to the gift of eternal life as an option. Rather, it is the path that the eternal kind of life ‘from above’ naturally takes. It is the path one must be on if his or hers is to be an eternal kind of life.”