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What happened, and is this a good or a bad thing?

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Scriptural References

Genesis 1, 11; Acts 1:6–7

Suggested Additional Sources for Reading

• Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Saving Paradise: How
  Christianity Traded Love of This World for Cruci xion and Empire (Beacon,
  2009).


• Lee C. Camp, Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World
  (Brazos, 2008).


• Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New
  World Disorder (Fortress Press, 2002).


• N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (HarperOne,
  2010).

Suggested Questions for Further Discussion/Thought

1. How have you been taught to think of God as elsewhere or everything?
   How do these understandings of God affect your ideas about suffering or
   injustice?


2. How might the kingdom “invitation to action” that Jarrod talked about
   help us feel like God is not so abstract?


3. Take the God Image survey at the end of this book. What is your
   God Image based on this? Do the results surprise you? With which
   contributors do your results match best? Do you tend to agree with what
   they’ve written throughout the book?

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