Conclusion

We give all honor to God, knowing that our life together is nothing unless it is filled with his love and continually renewed by his mercy.

1 Cor 13

As Christ commanded, we await the coming of the kingdom and desire to hasten it on. Our waiting cannot be passive or somber. Christ promises that those who truly expect his kingdom will be filled with his power and joy. He will help them do away with all compromise and resignation to the status quo. He will enable them to live already now in the love and justice of his coming kingdom.

Matt 24:36—25:46
2 Pet 3:11–13
Phil 4:4–9
Acts 1:6–8
John 16:23–33
1 Jn 5:3–5
Rev 21; Ezek 37

We pray that through Christ what is great and eternal will take hold of us in such a way that it transforms all that is small.1 Christ’s spirit can overwhelm every person, one after the other, until his kingdom fills the whole world. Through him our life together will become not narrower, but broader; not more limited, but more boundless; not more regulated, but more abundant; not more incapable, but more creative; not more sober, but more enthusiastic; not more fainthearted, but more daring. All this is Christ and his spirit of freedom.

Col 1: 9–14; Eph 1:15–23
2 Cor 4:16–18
Heb 12:1–3
Joel 2:28–32
Is 11:1–9
John 10:10
Rom 8:28–39
2 Cor 3:12–18

Come soon, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

Rev 22:20