This week: God as resurrection full. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. Everything is 'full' - no empty spaces - not room for an alternative opinion or judgment. God as resurrection full is the announcement that puts to an end all of the religious talk that attempts to put a threat out to folks even as they try to talk about the graciousness of God. We all know that line. There is always a 'but' or a 'what if' or a 'it can't be that easy'. It is all that talk that draws people back to hear some sort of 'good news' that is only part of the story. God as resurrection full does not add a footnote full of conditions. Most often, evangelistic messages are run by the power of death rather than the fullness of resurrection that death cannot handle. That is why people are so frantic in their attempts to 'win over the world' before folks die or so that they can be a part of the 'right' end. Well, because God as resurrection full is the God who walked with Jesus through death and out of the power of death (everyday by the way) all the worry or pressure or sales job that some lay over the universality of resurrection becomes just noise - background noise that we can simply turn off and live within the faithful imagination of God's resurrection. Imagine what would happen if religious folks (Christian religious folks) were liberated from their vision of resurrection as not enough to put death and hell out of the picture. Just wondering. O God of love and new life, let your resurrection power lead us and hold us and secure us for life that boldly dismisses death and its treasured images. Amen. |
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