Pastors have a responsibility to help their people recover the imagination and the language of Christian eschatology for two reasons. First, if the Christian gospel does not convert their imagination, it will be converted by the wider culture. Second, if that happens, evangelization fails. We need to teach our people eschatology as part and parcel of their and our discipleship and their and our mission. We need to stoke in their hearts a longing for and an expectation of the coming of Christ—who
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