God’s family pursues God’s purposes for the world and participates in God’s vision in the world by showing the world what a community of people in union with God is to look like. In this way the church is a witness to the ultimate overthrow of the powers of evil and to the ultimate rule of God over all creation in the new heavens and the new earth. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 163.