If you take this political/religious template and lay it over the New Testament, it opens another dimension of understanding. Jesus’ birth becomes a political event. He was born to overthrow Rome. Not in the civil sense of occupying an earthly throne, but in the sense that He was to be everything Rome was pretending to be.Continue reading “A Roman Cross and a Jewish Carpenter (2)”
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Sin and the Cross (3)
In the first two pieces, we looked at sin as a relational act of rebellion against our Father that exists at the community level as well as a personal level. We’ll build on this as we think about sin at the cosmic level. This is challenging because what we’re told in Scripture leaves us withContinue reading “Sin and the Cross (3)”
Sin and the Cross (2)
In the previous piece it was suggested that the ultimate way to look at sin and understand it is through relational terms. Sin is pictured in many ways in the biblical witness: financially/as wages, legally, spoilage, etc. These are all helpful in unpacking certain aspects of sin and enabling us to understand it from variousContinue reading “Sin and the Cross (2)”
A Taste of Grace with Bruce Green 