conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

mind the gaps

The major theme here is what God has done in Jesus Christ to reconcile a fallen humanity to God's own self. Sinful human beings, the argument goes, couldn't possibly accomplish that reconciliation themselves. But a lavishly generous and gracious God could -- and did -- not just forgive human sin but adopt human beings into God's family through the work of God's child, Jesus the Christ.

The gap between the divine and human more than narrowed: overcome, bridged, erased by a God who is gapless.

You can find the rest of Larry Greenfield's essay here. This is similar to the understanding I have of Ephesians. I am taking a slightly more ecclesial bent to it. The church is a gap-less and wall-less Temple. The walls that divide, not just the gaps, have been torn down. Hostility has come to an end.

I cannot help but think of Lebanon or even Chicago right in light of this passage. Churches need to be saying more about Jesus and not less. Paul's letter to the Ephesians is a fantactic witness to the power of God's work in the world. We need to speak about this directly and confidently...like Larry does. Otherwise our churches are simply mute...no matter how much noise they may make.

Posted by tripp at July 20, 2006 06:03 PM