becoming

What will it be like if you were to hear Jesus proclaiming that “The Kingdom of God is here!”, in your world? Consider this:

Some of us have worked on Wall Street, and some of us have slept on Wall Street. We are a community of struggle. Some of us are rich people trying to escape out loneliness. Some of us are poor folks trying to escape the cold. Some of us are addicted to drugs and others are addicted to money. We are a broken people who need each other and God, for we have come to recognize the mess that we have created of our world and how deeply we suffer from the mess. Now we are working to give birth to a new society within the shell of the old. Another world is possible. Another world is necessary. Another world is already here.

Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, p.188. Quoted by Tom Sine in The New Conspirators, p.25.