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in the middle.
Our life with others is always life in the middle. We are always building community in the tension between God’s “already” and “not yet” grace. And we have no more control over the not yet than we have had over the already. The timetable is in the hands of the sovereign Lord of grace. His timing is always right and he never gets a wrong address. Our job is to learn how best to live in the middle. So we live as broken people who are being repaired, among neighbors in the same condition — always thankful for what has already been done, but ever aware of our need for…