The goal of God’s act of grace in Christ is therefore unity among his creatures, a unity which, as this whole discussion has shown, is to become reality in the present in the community of those who acknowledge God’s gracious lordship in Christ.

If the universal scope of the mutual welcome all peoples are to extend to one another waits the restoration of creation, with its new heaven and new earth, that mutual welcome is nevertheless already to be visible reality within the church.

That is the burden of Paul’s discussion in these verses.

from Romans

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The goal of God’s act of grace in Christ is therefore unity among God’s creatures, a unity which, as this whole discussion has shown, is to become reality in the present in the community of those who acknowledge God’s gracious lordship in Christ.

If the universal scope of the mutual welcome all peoples are to extend to one another waits the restoration of creation, with its new heaven and new earth, that mutual welcome is nevertheless already to be visible reality within the church.

That is the burden of Paul’s discussion in these verses.

from Romans