Is it just an historic fact no different from the situation of believers living in other newly created, or recreated, states?
I believe that the church is one and that we must not presume to reconstruct the middle wall of partition in terms of present duties and privileges or future hopes for Jew as distinct from gentile. In that sense, I cannot find biblical basis to assume a difference between Jew and gentile ˆ we must all be godly, challenge our societies, be faithful citizens but primarily faithful citizens of heaven, seek peace and justice, labour for the weak and work for a gracious, godly, righteous society. This inevitably creates tensions between the two loyalties, but such tension is the reality in which a Christian must live while in the world yet not of it. Our life is hid with Christ in God, yet lived out in the here and now of a sinful world which repeatedly constructs challenges to God‚s right to our primary, over-riding loyalty. I do not believe any system of eschatology should inform our politics. By this I do not mean that eschatology as such should not impact our views, nor that our specifi
