I think Christians must engage this culture with exuberant confidence that we can reshape the culture. So let me tell you why I am so hopeful as I look into the future. I am working hard to shape an imagination of hope. I call on you students to be a generation of hope. You can t imagine the future unless you remember the past.
Christians are a remembering people.
And you can find hope in the Christian story. And so the reason I am so hopeful is that I remember Paul and the little band of Corinthians who imagined that God s kingdom could flourish all across the world. They believed, imagined, that they could participate in this story of grace. Well, I am caught up in that hopeful story. If it hadn t been for Paul and that little group of Christians in Corinth the world would have been a very different place.