Quote of the Week
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Oct 3, 2022: What Is God’s Story?
God created us in his image and likeness, to live in union with himself, to be what he created us to be, and to do what he created us to do: take care of the world and make it the place of his glory. But we failed both assignments. We rebelled against God and sought the meaning of life by following the course of evil in our personal choices, resulting in the world as a place of violence, greed, and lust. We can’t change ourselves or the world. So God does it for us. God’s story is the story of how God reversed the human condition, broke the hold of sin and death—which separates us from God—and restored us to the original vision of becoming the person God created us to be and making the world the place of God’s glory. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 16.
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Sep 26, 2022: Christian Spirituality
Christian spirituality . . . is God’s passionate embrace of us; our passionate embrace of God. . . . On the one side we find the divine initiative, referring to what God does to make us spiritual. On the other side we find our response, referring to our reception of the union. . . . God makes us spiritual, and we live the spiritual life. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 16.
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Sep 19, 2022: Union With God
The heart of biblical and ancient Christian spirituality is our mystical union with God accomplished by Jesus Christ through the Spirit. God unites with humanity in his saving incarnation, death, and resurrection. We unite with God as we receive his new life within us. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 16.
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Sep 12, 2022: The Ancient Christian Tradition
The Fathers of the church have taken me back into a dynamic worldview, an understanding of the interrelationship of all things. . . . The challenge for us is to return to the Christian tradition. For here is a faith that, like a tapestry, weaves everything in and out of the main thread—Christ. My own experience with this rediscovered tapestry is a renewed and enriched faith. -Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 204.
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