Why have the writings of the prophets endured? Because they fearlessly speak truth to power. They call out the injustice and oppression of the system… - Rob Bell

What's disturbing, then, is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about hell here and now. As a Christian I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth: poverty, injustice, suffering — they're all hells on earth and as Christians we oppose them with all of our energies.

Central to this conquest of the world was the belief that military victory is peace. There was even one line from the empire propaganda that went Caesar is the son of God sent to earth to bring about a universal reign of peace and prosperity. You see the problem here, right? It’s only peace if you’re holding the sword; to all those who were conquered by this devastating war machine — and hung on crosses — it wasn’t peace. It was awful. It was oppressive. It was evil.

We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true.