Jesus, an offering of God…

Thomas Merton, a contemporary Christian mystic, once wrote, “….Though “out of the world” we are in the same world as everybody else, the world of the bomb, the world of race hatred, the world of technology, the world of mass media, big business, revolution, and all the rest. We take a different attitude to all these things, for we belong to God. Yet so does everybody else belong to God. We just happen to be conscious of it, and to make a profession out of this consciousness.”  (Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander)

By “we”, Merton means those that profess to be followers of Christ. This week we will continue to explore the Jesus question – Who Is Jesus and Why Does It Matter?, by pressing into a different perspective on the writings of John. That perspective will take us into the terrain that Merton is pointing toward – the suggestion that Jesus himself was an offering of God to everyone in a way that was filled to the brim with the best sort of life. Our job is to become conscious of it, and to live into it.

See you on Sunday…

Peace,

Tim