Grasping the tension of our Christian existence is crucial to a mature,

Christian life - there is no other way around it. Jesus taught us that his

kingdom had arrived and that it was still a way off. We are old man flesh,

being changed by the spirit, more and more into the new AND we are already

new creations. Jesus knows who we are and where we live! When Paul first

arrived in Corinth, we see how badly he needed reminding of this too. The

Now/Not Yet paradigm isn’t just a piece of theology, it will pervade every

aspect of our personhood if we allow it to.

By Hannah Flint