1. What does it mean in everyday life as Christians to “keep our heads in the clouds?”
2. What are the ways that being shaped into a new “we” as a diverse church can be disorienting?
3. What does it mean to understand our ethnic identity as subservient to our identity in Jesus Christ?
“If Jesus, the Christ, is so highly favored and acknowledged to be God’s ‘right-hand man’ with all power and authority to effect God’s will and to protect his own—which is implicit in that claim—then Christian life should be entirely oriented by reference to this Christ.” - James Dunn
“It is only those who are the most heavenly minded that are actually able to labor for the most earthly good. Why? Because our longing for peace, healing, and restoration is not rooted in the ability of this world to manufacture it.