In other words...

This came through from Bruderhof just as I was making my comments in the post below.

"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only 2,000 years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died 2,000 years ago. Do not then preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you."

Us being God's representative makes this immensely more than a "yeah, we know. Heard it before" kind of platitude.