Quote of the Week
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April 5, 2021: Easter Is a Season
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 148.
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Mar 29, 2021: The Way of the Cross
I contemplated the spiritual journey of Holy Week. . . . I sensed this was the week that above all weeks was to be set aside for the journey into death. I knew the worship of the church would take me by the hand and lead me step-by-step into the experience of death and rebirth, if I would allow it to do so. I resolved then and there to walk in the way of the cross. I purposed to make this the week God intended it to be for me, a week of intense spiritual struggle—and reward!-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 118-119.
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Mar 22, 2021: Powers Dethroned
It is no longer necessary to be bound by the power of a false understanding and the distorted functioning of the created order. Faith in Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate ruler over all of life, can break the twisting of political, economic, social, and moral structures into secular salvation. Because those structures that promise secular salvation are disarmed, they can no longer exercise ultimate power in our lives. The powers have been dethroned by the power of the cross (Col 2:15).
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 51. -
Mar 15, 2021: Re-creating Creation
The exercising of Christ’s power over Satan had the effect of restoring to wholeness God’s creation that had become demented, twisted, distorted, and corrupted by Satan. When Jesus cast out demons, healed the blind, made the lame walk, restored health, and raised the dead, he demonstrated that his purpose was to restore, renew and re-create his universe. In order to re-create the creation, it was first necessary for Christ to dethrone that power which was distorting the creation.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 50. -
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