“The point of the resurrection... is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die. God will raise it to new life. What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it.....What you do in the present - by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself - will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable until the day we leave it behind altogether.... They are part of what we may call building God’s kingdom.... You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff .... all of this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God, into the new creation that God will one day make.”
Excerpted from N.T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope
2 comments:
I really like that book.
i know you do. i'd like to read it...
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