RT @nick_routledge: @Plough @benjamindcrosby Eloquent, lucid, passionate, beautiful. And yet our conundrum remains. The institutional Church preserves its existence only by endlessly postponing the Second Advent it announces. A choice, then. Fatal decline or embracing the mission of the Living God's coming and arrival, now?
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Copy of tweet here: end/ "What we have to learn is not that the church 'has' a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church. The Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is creation of a new world. 'The best is yet to come'." - Moltmann
@johnmilbank3 @SaveTheParish end/ Surely, in build, ours is a universal infirmity, an "eclipse of the messianic experience" (Agamben) effectively banishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it promises.
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