The absurdity of Jesus The God of All Time re-introduces Godself to the world in the form of an infant, Jesus. Jesus lives in a quiet life of a Jewish boy and learns from the Pharisees to be a rabbi. When it’s time for his public ministry, he announces that he will die soon, at the hands of the religious and political authorities, yet he still says he’s the savior of the world, the Son of Man, the one that will bring heaven to earth, and reconcile all things unto himself. But he dies a criminal’s death. He is lynched. And he is lynched because of the world and for the sake of the world. It is an embarrassing solution to the problem, but what the absurdity of the cross gives us a chance to do is to model the same cruciform imagination as we work with God to bring heaven to earth.
Christians need to prophetically imagine
Christians need to prophetically imagine
Christians need to prophetically imagine
The absurdity of Jesus The God of All Time re-introduces Godself to the world in the form of an infant, Jesus. Jesus lives in a quiet life of a Jewish boy and learns from the Pharisees to be a rabbi. When it’s time for his public ministry, he announces that he will die soon, at the hands of the religious and political authorities, yet he still says he’s the savior of the world, the Son of Man, the one that will bring heaven to earth, and reconcile all things unto himself. But he dies a criminal’s death. He is lynched. And he is lynched because of the world and for the sake of the world. It is an embarrassing solution to the problem, but what the absurdity of the cross gives us a chance to do is to model the same cruciform imagination as we work with God to bring heaven to earth.