The Tension of the Church* (2)

Besides this spiritual tension in the life of the individual Christen he is also constantly under pressure because he, while in this life, is of the earth earthy. On the one hand, the child of God is a heavenly citizen. He has been born again from above. He has become a stranger here below, also, mind you, a stranger upon the earth. Also the earth as such has become strange to him. Really, he does not belong here, sojourns in an altogether strange world, a foreign land. He is a citizen of...