How Salvation is Worked Out

How Salvation is Worked Out
Philippians 2.12-18

It was an ugly city. The fine old buildings had been pulled down over the years, and they had been replaced by huge square concrete monstrosities. They were designed for function, not good looks – though by the time I went there they were getting tatty and ragged at the edges, and I wondered just how functional they were now. It was a depressing place.

But then, just a few years ago, an architect was appointed by the city council to design a new civic centre right in the heart of the city, in the middle of all that ugliness. They couldn’t afford to pull everything down again, but they could just afford, they reckoned, to begin the process of making the city once more the beautiful place the old pictures showed it to have been...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright