" None of this, we note, is according to human wisdom. None of it is according to human design. None of it is dependent on human effort. All of it is dependent on and driven by God. All of it is intensely countercultural, then and now. To a watching world that asks us what our answer is for alienation and hostility, we say two things: (1) the cross, and (2) the Church. The cross alone has the power to create a new humanity, a new people, a new race birthed by God. "