The Redemptive Hope of Jesus

Many of today’s Christian attempts to foresee the future move against the grain of the early Christian’s patient life of faith, supernaturally empowered by the ferment of the Holy Spirit. Believers in the first three centuries of the Church leaned into gifts of grace to be freely shared, with the sober recognition of Jesus’s command to care for the world. The earliest Christians lived into "new hope," our namesake, by receiving each new today with anticipation that God is at work, and what will come is worth doing, worth experiencing, no matter how hard it might be. Unfortunately, today, current false and hopeless narratives tend to drive the Church instead. This week, we'll examine six of these false perspectives, then explore a seventh perspective that rides on the redemptive hope Jesus gives us.