Probably one of the best short explanations of Christs Incarnation, death and resurrection Ive ever read: People always assume that the churchs primary business is to teach morality. But it isnt; its to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. Its to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it. Morality, law, rules, prescriptions – those are all the worlds business. And the world keeps up a steady drumbeat on those subjects: you must do this; you mustnt do that; youre out until you can prove yourself worthy of being let in. But thats just a thinly disguised way of saying that most people arent going to be in for very long and that none of them can be in for good. Nobody, from Adam to the last person on earth, can pass a test like that. And therefore God simply doesnt risk it: by the Mystery of the Incarnation, he cancels all the tests and gives a blanket hundred percent to everyone. In the Mystery of Christs death, he drops all the rotten works in the world down the black hole of his own forgetting; and in the Mystery of Christs resurrection, he makes a new world in which were all home free. — Robert Farrar Capon, The Mystery of Christ… & Why We Dont Get It
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 14:00:12 +0000
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