Already Not Yet’ is shorthand for the between-the-times experience of living in the Kingdom of God, now.

‘Already’, through accepting Christ and receiving his Spirit, and



‘not yet’ because this foretaste of heaven is partial and lived-out in an imperfect, fallen world. God’s saving purposes are inaugurated but not consummated. Power in weakness describes this tension perfectly, preventing triumphalism, on the one hand, and defeatism on the other.