This week: God as unfolding story. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]God as unfolding story makes us step back from all of our attempts to turn our God
into a stone image - an idol - that can crumble under time and under the power of
new revelations and conversation. God as unfolding story means that we are involved
- as God's beloved people - in the way the story continues to move through this
day. We are not a people who are meant to simply read of a past time and place.
If that were so, there would not be such a dynamic bunch of stories as are told
in the book of Acts. God as unfolding story is the moving of the Holy Spirit that
takes us beyond ourselves and all that we thought we could or should control. God
as unfolding story means that we must remember the stories of old, connect with
the stories of the not-so-distant life of the faithful, and take the risk to step
into God's gracious Reign even as it keeps moving along the way and bidding us to
come and see.
O God of love and new life, keep us soundly grounded in the story of your love so
that we will be free to engage the present with confidence and grace. Amen.
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