Taylor Weber’s Reviews > The Challenge of Acts: Rediscovering What the Church Was and Is > Status Update

“… resurrection is where you get to theologically if you believe in God as the good Creator and in God‘s purpose to put all things right at the end. All this means that following Jesus wasn’t so much a new religion as the unveiling of a new reality.”

“… when we read the language of ‘salvation’, our minds easily flick back into the default mode of Western Christianity: we assume that the whole message is about ‘going to heaven’… [but] the New Testament isn’t about our going to be with God; it’s about God coming to be with us.”