" the first task of Christians is to live now the message and ethics of Jesus’s new messianic kingdom. When surrounding society says we should abandon Jesus’s teaching for the sake of short-term effectiveness, we must refuse—precisely because we know that the risen Jesus is now Lord of history and that his kingdom will finally prevail. If Jesus is truly Lord and Messiah, then in the long run his way will also be most effective.42 "

― Ronald J. Sider , If Jesus Is Lord: Loving Our Enemies in an Age of Violence