More from Hauerwas’ “Only Theology Overcomes Ethics”…
Christian ethics and politics are not areas to be developed after we have done theology but are constitutive of Christian speech whose form is first and foremost prayer.
Earlier, we said that theology means working out what it means that God matters. All of us as people claimed by God are called to work that out not only in words but in the whole of our lives. That call is a gift of grace in that God offers us wholeness and integrity of life. Ultimately, the questions, “What should we say about God?” and “How should I live?” are specific ways of asking, “How can God’s gracious reign come to fullness in all of who I am?”
Connection: The busy-ness of daily life often feels like it is fragmented and disorienting. Part of the promise of grace is that God’s shalom—God’s peace and wholeness—is offered to us to put our fragile pieces back together. In this day, where will the wholeness God gives be at work in your life?
Lord, we claim your promise that you will restore us in our entirety. Take the shards of who we are and fashion them into one whole, so that we can be vessels filled with your mercy and love for the world and each other.
Romans 6:4—“Therefore we have been buried with [Christ] by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”
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