The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.