Jesus’ resurrection and our atonement with God leads us to recognize that we are reconciled not just to God but to each other as well. And more than that — it isn’t simply a remaking of our personal relationships. The Easter event is the foundation for a new way of living in community. It begins a process, still ongoing, of moving us from a world ordered around the way of the Ruler of this World to one in which the Reign of God is made increasingly manifest.

You can sense this by hearing the words Jesus speaks to the disciples in the Upper Room, and to Thomas himself, in light of an earlier moment in the Gospel accounts: the sending of the seventy-two to proclaim that the Kingdom of God has come near.

What Jesus has those disciples do closely parallels the proclamations made regularly by Roman Emperors. But Jesus changes one crucial element, and that change points to an alternate reality that is slowly dawning.

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