"Every Christian is summoned to see herself among the perpetrators for whom Christ has substituted himself. "He takes our place when we become sinners, when we become His enemies, when we stand as such under His accusation and curse, and bring upon ourselves our own destruction" (216). To this day, as we look around us at the self-destructive tendencies in the world that destroy good and hopeful things - from broken levees to derelict housing projects to botched aid operations to failed nation-building - we see the Lord standing in the place where the fiascoes are happening, not only in the place of those victims who are made to suffer but also and most radically in the place of the delinquents, collaborators, transgressors, and perpetrators. This, in part, is what it means to say with the apostle Paul that he justifies the ungodly."