Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, Sir, open the door for us. But he will answer, I don't know you or where you come from — the finality of the closed door is the eschatological judgment's defining image: the time of opportunity has a terminus, and those who appeal to their external association with Jesus find that familiarity is not intimacy. Shared public space is not the same as personal relationship.

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