To Refer To The Church As A

And Since We Are People Of Expectation, We Are So Convinced That Another World Is Coming That We Start Living As If It Were Already Here.

Christianity Can Be Built Around Isolating Ourselves From Evildoers And Sinners, Creating A Community Of Religious Piety And Moral Purity. That’s The Christianity I Grew Up With. Christianity Can Also Be Built Around Joining With The Broken Sinners And Evildoers Of Our World Crying Out To God, Groaning For Grace. That’s The Christianity I Have Fallen In Love With.

We Are Setting Ourselves Up For Disappointment If Our Hope Is Built On Anything Less Than Jesus.

There Is Extreme Poverty In Appalachia, Where I Was, And Increasingly Poverty Is Not Just An Urban Thing.

I Do Believe That The Church Is God's Primary Instrument For Ushering In The Kingdom (god's Dream) On Earth As It Is In Heaven, But God Is Not Limited To Use Only The Church, Or Only Christians For That Matter.