'Christians do not reveal their heavenly citizenship by simply pining away for the blessed life to come. Rather, they show their citizenship by bringing heaven to earth. Our calling is not to sit along the sidelines and wait for the world to come. Instead, our calling is to bring heaven here, to live in the light of heaven's reality now, to show the citizens of these earthly and temporal countries that there is a far better, eternal country...We best point the way to the world to come when we offer glimpses of that world in this one. We point the way to heaven when we speak its language and live by its customs on earth.'
Stephen J Nichols, Heaven on Earth: Capturing Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Living In Between, p.48.
