The most significant four days of the year.
If the busyness of life has kept you from dialing in to the significance of these next few days in our calendar year, this email is an invitation to remember!
It's Thursday of the Passion Week.
The night Jesus had his last meal with his friends. My favorite section of the whole Bible is what he did and had to say to them that night. John chapter 17 is the best!
Jim is thinking the same things today. An hour ago I popped in on him where he was working, with a "What's up?" and he'd read this to me. It's too good not to share with you as we head into the weekend!
These few days changed EVERYTHING.
"...not for people to go to heaven but for people to discover that God's new world has begun, and we can be part of it.
I hope it is now clear why the reurrection of Jesus is so central and vital -- as Paul insists again and again, especially in 1 Corinthians 15:17. 'If the Messiah wasnt raised,' he writes, 'your faith is pointless, and you are still in your sins.' If the Messiah is not raised, the covenant is not renewed, creation is not renewed, and...he is not even Messiah in the first place....
He was inaugurating a whole new world, a new creation, a new way of being human. He was forging a way into a new cosmos, a new era, a form of existence hinted at all along but never before unveiled.
'Here it is,' he was saying. 'This is the new creation you've been waiting for. It is open for business.'"
N.T. Wright Simply Good News, p 100-1.
(I loved this so much, I made a recording for you of the whole devotional and put in dropbox here.)
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