The redemption of. . .Everything?

"To suggest that the sin of man so corrupted his creation that God cannot fix it but can only junk it in favor of some other world is to say that ultimately the kingdom of evil is more powerful than the kingdom of God. It makes sin more powerfulthan redemption, and Satan the victor over God. Reducing the gospel to a strictly spiritual dimension of human existence concedes everything outside of that dimension to the enemy."

-- Michael D. Williams, Far as the Curse is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption (2005)

One of the great truths that I've embraced over the past ten years or so in a real way is the simple fact that the gospel does more than just redeem man's heart. The good news that God delivers through His son Jesus is that God is making aright all that is wrong with the world. His intent is to redeem all of creation and reverse the effects of the fall. The kingdom of God should never be reduced to some place that's outside of the time/space universe as we know it. The deep truth of the incarnation is that God in the form of Jesus has landed in enemy-occupied territory and is seeking to take back what was rightly His to begin with. C.S. Lewis hits on this kind of holistic redemption when he speaks of Aslan's return to Narnia in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It's like Aslan's presence begins changing everything. Not just the allegience of those held captive in Narnia. . .but Narnia itself begins to wonderously change. In the same way, the presence of Jesus on earth displays the good news that God is at work healing all the physical ills of this world and even reversing the affects of a world that held in bondage to death. This is why physical resurrection is so powerful. In Jesus both the physical and non-physcial curse of the fall (death) has been reversed. The gospel is powerfully at work redeeming ALL things.

What impact does this understanding play in how we view the physical world around us? our earth? Our own bodies? If the gospel is not relegated exclusively to the non-physical realm, what implications does this have in our physical lives?