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Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:09 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 2

"Still haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
The song is a comemnt on the dissonance between what Bono believes about Christ's work on the cross and what he sees lived out on earth. God saves, and yet the world is not saved yet. Christ has risen and ascended and yet therer is poverty and strife, war and murder and desertion, pain and suffering. he is looking for the CONSUMMATION of all that Christ has wrought, but it is not here yet. He hasn't found what he's is looking for - heaven on earth. It is the tension between the "now" and the "not yet" woven throughout scripture and Christian theology. This is biblical.
He does, however, seem to lean toward the idea that the church will bring about the reign of Christ on earth, that we will make the kigdom come. But I think that is a response to the seeming ineffective and lackadaisical approach to social justice the church in America (and the world?) seems to hold.