Throughout history, God’s people have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, or Romans, God’s calling has been to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, the American church has lived with a sense of being at home in the world with considerable influence, power, and status. That age of Christendom is now waning, and maybe this is something for which the church should give thanks. There is no comfortable normalcy to which we can or should return. Maybe we should be viewing the end (of Christendom) as a beginning.