In the most momentous event in history, God became incarnate in Christ, not only to model shalom (by forgiving the sinner, feeding the hungry, healing the sick and infirm, raising the dead, loving the outsider, and caring for all in need) but, as St. Paul writes, to be “our shalom.” The kingdom of God-the shalom of God-was at hand. And so until God brings forth the new heaven and new earth, he calls believers, individuals and as a community, to conform to Christ and embody within every part of their lives, the shalom of God.
James Davison Hunter To Change the World, 229.
