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A New Sign–Karl Barth

“The church exists to set up in the world a new sign which is radically dissimilar to the world’s own manner and which contradicts it in a way that is full of promise.”
Karl Barth
Alien Citizens: Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, and Why the Church Is Political by Will Willimon
The most revolutionary political statement we can make is that Jesus reigns; that God, not nations, rules the world: All political, all social, all educational, all human problems are solved in a concrete way by the rulership of Christ.
Source: Alien Citizens: Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, and Why the Church Is Political by Will Willimon