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This summer, we partnered with Acton to offer complimentary episode rentals of For the Life of the World: Letters to Exiles. Today, we feature the final episode: The Church.
Largely summarizing the previous six episodes, The Church introduces two critical ideas. The first is that the church is the body tasked—among other things—to carry on the memory of God’s plan for the world by manifesting it in everyday life. For the church, memory is not strictly mental or intellectual. It is lived out. The church—gathered and scattered—infuses the world with a distinct sense of God’s presence through its manifold activities. As a body, the church is offered for the life of the world.
The second is that the church anticipates the heavenly kingdom. It is the sign of joy, the already-but-not-yet presence of God’s kingdom, the taste of the promised feast of heaven. Thus, as individuals, we can come to see how daily work, economic growth, character formation, education, technological innovation, and cultural institutions that point us upward and outward can all be worshipful participations in God’s divine plan to bring life to the world and glory to God.
Free eBook by Tim Keller: ‘The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness’
Imagine a life where you don’t feel inadequate, easily offended, desperate to prove yourself, or endlessly preoccupied with how you look to others. Imagine relishing, not resenting, the success of others. Living this way isn’t far-fetched. It’s actually guaranteed to believers, as they learn to receive God’s approval, rather than striving to earn it.
In Tim Keller’s short ebook, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path To True Christian Joy, he explains how to overcome the toxic tendencies of our age一not by diluting biblical truth or denying our differences一but by rooting our identity in Christ.
TGC is offering this Keller resource for free, so you can discover the “blessed rest” that only self-forgetfulness brings.
