Faith develops in this eschatological hope which causes unrest and impatience for the promised future. Hope, which anticipates this future in the present, is in flagrant contradiction with the world of death. Reclaiming Christian eschatology from the realm of speculation about literal end-time events to focus on hope is imperative for the Church as it seeks to live faithfully as the embodiment of God's kingdom in anticipation of the return of Christ. The model for living an eschatological faith is simple. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul expresses his eschatological reservation knowing that it is only in the return of Christ that all things will be fulfilled. He concludes this chapter with this verse: “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of them is love. This single verse implicitly summarizes the implications of eschatology for the Christian life. Faith, and faith alone, binds us to God through the death and resurrection of his son, Jesus Christ (Rom. 5 and 6). Hope binds faith to the future bodily resurrection which will be shared by all believers in the returning Christ (1 Cor 15). Jones writes: “The resurrection of Christ in the past is the power of our sanctification in the present and the certainty behind our hope for the future. »10 The power of our sanctification in the present is realized in love, the act of living in the tension of eschatology through empowerment