Orginal hope for change

St Paul the apostle of Christ first preached the hope for change. An expose by John Knox on Paul says that "Christ is not merely to come; Christ has come. The kingdom of God , the realm of the Spirit, is not simply an object of eager longing or of expectation, however confident; the whole ground of the Christian life lies in the fact that in the church, the kingdom of God is really, though partially, present, and that in the Spirit, which has already been given, we have a foretaste, an advance installment of the whole eschatological order of the Spirit."

Christ’s church, Christianity, is literally God’s new creation of both a community of the Spirit (God’s grace) and a community of love. Paul ably converted many people into believers that they might be justified and reconciled in Christ. A Christian literally is to be "in Christ." The promised land, therefore, of which we Christians now have a foretaste on earth, will not be entered when Obama takes the oath of office in January 2009. Alleluia! Hail to the true chief!