Sublime

The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting.

we are heading closer to the world Bellah predicted would arise “if the whole God symbolism requires reformulation.”24 He argued, “There will be obvious consequences for the civil religion, consequences perhaps of liberal alienation and of fundamentalist ossification.”

Something incredible happens when the church moves into the community and demonstrates the kingdom with compassion and authority, among people who secretly hope that life change is possible and who are secretly hoping that God is available to them.

The ultimate dynamic driving this secular age is the denial of our creatureliness and the assertion of our autonomy.

Or the 39% of Americans, according to a 201410 Public Religion Research Institute poll, who believe God will intercede to stop humans from destroying the earth.

exile reminds us where our true hope is.

“What is playing out is an institutional trust story—not an individual belief story,” he said.