Drawing on the early church's response to the Antonine plague in Rome, "All Things New: Part 1" opens a series on what the church truly is by starting at the end, in Revelation 21, where Jesus says "I am making everything new" — using the Greek kainos, meaning renewed and restored rather than scrapped and replaced. The central theme is that God moves toward us in our mess, calling his people to be a "colony of the future," a working model of new creation marked by generosity, presence, and honesty while the world flees. The takeaway is practical: show up embodied, bring your actual life without pretending, and carry that newness into one specific corner of your week.