N.T. Wright:

"Our task is to find the symbolic ways of doing things differently, planting [the revolution] flags in hostile soil, setting up sign post which says that there is a different way of becoming human. And when people are puzzled at what you are doing, your task is to find ways of telling the story of the return of the human race from its exile by way of explanation.

If you were to shape your world in following Christ, it isn’t enough to say that being a Christian and being a professional or an academic is simply about high moral standard, though it is, or using every opportunity to talk to your student bout Jesus, though it is, or praying with or for them, being fair in your grading and honest in your speaking, that is all non-negotiable, but you were called to do something much much more, you were called prayerfully to discern where in your discipline the human project is showing signs of exiles. And humbly and boldly to act symbolically in ways which declares that the Powers have been defeated. The Powers don’t like that by the way, do this only with prayers. That the kingdom has come in Jesus the Jewish Messiah, that the new way of being human has been unveiled. And be prepared to tell the story which explains what the symbols are all bout. In all this you were to declare that Jesus is lord, and Caesar is not as the New Testament did; that Jesus is lord that Marx and Freud and Nietzsche aren’t; that Jesus is lord and neither modernity nor post-modernity are. When Paul spoke of the gospel, the euangelion, he wasn’t simply talking bout a system of salvation but about the powerful announcement in symbols and words that Jesus is the true lord of the world, the true light of the world…."

(transcripted from Wright's lecture entitled "Jesus and the World's True Light")