believing community today in the United States has more in common with the believing community in first-century Asia Minor than it has with the late capitalist culture of Los Angeles and New York. Our identity is preeminently shaped by the role that we play in the drama of redemption (“the age to come” as it has dawned in Christ). This does not make us inactive in this world—quite the contrary. Rather, it makes us active in a fundamentally different way. Particularly since Pentecost, the drama of