moral nobility and not social respectability. We are called to a higher loyalty, to a more excellent way.
Indeed, every true Christian is a citizen of two worlds: the world of time and the world of eternity. We find outselves in the paradoxical situation of having to be in the world and yet not of the world. As Paul said in another letter: “We are a colony of heaven.”> The Christians to whom Paul was writing understood that figure, for their city of Phillippi was a Roman colony. Whenever Rome wanted to Romanize a province, it took a small colony of people and planted them there to spread Roman law, Roman culture, and Roman customs. These people stood as a powerful, cre- ative minority spreading the gospel of Roman culture.® Even though they lived in
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The preceding four sentences were condensed in the published version: “Many voices and forces urge us to choose the path ofleast resistance, and bid us never to fight for an unpopular cause and never to be found in a pathetic minority of two or three” (King, Strength to Love, p. 8).
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The preceding two sentences were altered in the published version: “Some psychologists say that mental and emotional adjustment is the reward of thinking and acting like other people” (p. 8). Will, “Men Who Live Differently,” p. 5: “Some of our philosophical sociologists have gone even further and