Living Actively Awaiting Christ's Return

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"Living in post-Ascension times means living as witnesses to a presently reigning Christ, participating in His ongoing work through faithful testimony, and maintaining confident hope in His promised return while refusing to be distracted by speculation about its timing. It means honoring the apostolic witness through which we know the invisible Christ, and extending that witness to our own generation and context.

The Ascension isn't merely about where Jesus went—it's about how His departure enables His universal presence through the Holy Spirit and apostolic witness. It's the pivot point that transforms Christianity from a local, ethnic, political movement into a global, spiritual, eternal kingdom that transcends all human limitations while working through human instruments to accomplish divine purposes.?"

-- Rev. John Vermeer