The Future of Everything - Week 1
IN this introduction to the Book of 1 Thessalonians, Jay Kim talks about a particular Greek word that keeps popping up (four times in the short letter, in fact) - the word parousia. It’s a word that ties into kings, and kingdoms, and the future - and for Christians, the promise of a reality so good and so real that it can charge every moment here - even terrible ones - with hope. As we’ll see for the people of Thessalonica, this simple, four-syllable ancient word contained a universe of meaning, and a universe of hope. And if we have ears to hear, it can do the same for us.
