Nov
27
2008
Why Do Good In Such A Bad World?
Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright recently spoke at Harvard University during an outreach event sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. His topic was, “Why do good in what seems to be a hopeless world?”
In a post-September 11 world where the AIDS crisis and now the credit crisis are ailing millions, why should we try to make a difference at all? Why should we try to do good … to create good things out there in the world when in fact all the hope that our society has lived on seems to be imploding all around us? Contrary to popular belief, heaven is not the end of the world or the ultimate goal. It’s just phase one. Further down, there’s a new heaven and new earth – in other words, a renewal or recreation of the cosmos. It is a “world put to rights.” And humans are a part of that remaking.
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