Get off our backsides and do something in the local community.

'[T]he new creation has begun with Easter. I discovered that when we do new creation - when we encourage one another in the church to be active in projects of new creation, of healing, of hope for communities - we are standing on the ground that Jesus has won in his resurrection.

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Because Jesus is raised from the dead, God's new world has begun. We are not only the beneficiaries of new creation; we are the agents of it.

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If you have an eschatology that is nonmaterial, why bother with this present world? But if God intends to renew the world, then what we do in the present matters. That's 1 Corinthians 15:58! This understanding has made my preaching more challenging to me, and hopefully to my hearers, to actually get off our backsides and do something in the local community - things that are signs of new creation.'

N.T. Wright, 'N.T. Wright on Resurrection', March 19, 2008, PreachingToday Blog, available online at http://blog.preachingtoday.com/2008/03/interview_with_n_t_wright.html