1. Christians are driven by different motives and an altogether different spirit than the unregenerate world.
  2. We are promised we will also be before Him as true persons, both soul and body, a resurrected and fully redeemed human being.
  3. Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
  4. The combination of the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection mean the present is transformed forever.
  5. There is absence in that all we have is an empty tomb, but presence because, while the tomb is empty, Christ is alive with a gloriously transformed body and with us!

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