God is not at work to reform or tear down our institutions. He's doing something far more radical and far more dangerous — building a people who live in the world where sin, suffering, and death have already lost. What emerges is an entirely other way of being and moving in the world. A way that looks a lot like Jesus.

Journaling Prompts:

What if culture wars on all sides are missing the point? Where is your outrage, your fear, your hope dictated by forces that have already been defeated?

What would change about your own suffering and the injustice you see if resurrection isn’t only a future hope but a verdict already delivered?

What practices of the Church in gathered worship — confession, praise, the table, listening — might be training you to live as exiles and strangers, a people of the resurrection, wherever you find yourselves?

Practice — Liturgy as Lab:

Last week’s practice remains this week’s practice — resurrection doesn’t produce a new practice every week, it produces a people formed into a certain shape.

Liturgy—the form of our gathered worship—is the place where we are encountered and formed by God. Where we embody God’s new way of being.

We gather with those we might not otherwise gather with.

We listen for God to speak in a world that tells us the answers are within us.

We respond to whatever God has said.

We feast at Christ’s table where we are met by Him and leave changed.

We are sent to love a world God has not given up on.

These movements are formative. They are not just what we do on Sunday—they are forming us into a community that does them everywhere—a people of the resurrection.

Consider how our worship trains you to live from a reality the world can’t comprehend. Where could you live this week as though that reality is already true?