Emphasis Preaching Journal

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"Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth."

First things first, Paul says.

Do not think that we have here a warrant for escape from the contemporary social situation. To us is committed an Easter gospel of redemption, the transformation of our present situation and not an exit from it "God so loved the world that he gave his only son," John says. This means that we must love it, too, and labor in and for it.