Sentences with phrase «awaits final fulfillment»
In Christian teaching the Church is often spoken of as «militant, expectant, and triumphant» — as the Church in this world of time and space, as the Church as it awaits final fulfillment, and as the Church «in heaven.»
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The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»
Jesus in heaven awaits the time when he shall return to earth to bring to final fulfillment God's purpose of judgment and redemption.