“Made
for spirituality, we wallow in introspection.
Made
for joy, we settle for pleasure.
Made
for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
Made
for relationship, we insist on our own way.
Made
for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment.
But new
creation has already begun.
The sun
has begun to rise.
Christians
are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ,
all
that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ...
That,
quite simply, is what it means to be Christian:
to
follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world,
which
he has thrown open before us.”
~ N.T.
Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense.
