responsibilities as citizens of heaven (whose royal law is, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” [James 2:8]), we will also be able to fulfill our responsibilities as citizens on this earth. On the other hand, if we are irresponsible citizens here and now, we cannot be responsible citizens of heaven. We live Christian lives in the real present with its concrete street addresses and political and social realities because we belong to a permanent citizenship that is God’s gift to us here and
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