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.”⁵ 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, creative minority spreading the gospel of Roman culture.⁶ Even though they lived in