The coming kingdom is united together in solidarity with each other and in obedience to Jesus. The picture of this transnational unity that you just described, that is a prefiguring sign of what our future as the church will be like. And I wanna remind ourselves to look back to February 2022 this year and remind ourselves of the power of prayer.
What does it look like to have Christian hope in this chaotic world?
As believers, we live in the “already but not yet,” which means that we are currently in the kingdom of God, though the kingdom has not reached its full expression. In other words, we are “already” in the kingdom of God, but we do “not yet” experience its full glory.
In this Advent episode, David and Curtis look back at the challenging year and look for signs of the “coming Kingdom” so that listeners can “read the signs of the times”-- in a way that is both Biblical and hopeful – and live in the anticipation of God’s justice, restoration, and glory.
Show Notes:
-YouTube: God Bless You': Residents Welcome Ukrainian Troops As They Advance Toward Kherson
-YouTube: Ukrainian woman plays violin from apartment basement in Kharkiv
-World Health Organization: COVAX delivers its 1 billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose
-Forbes: How A Rock Star, A Physician-Legislator, And An Evangelical Senator Bonded To Help End The Global AIDS Pandemic: A Backstory
-The Perception Gap: Americans tend to have a distorted understanding of people on the other side of the aisle.