Monday, August 20
Maybe the most important teaching…
A week ago, 8.12, we spent the morning at Crossings talking about some “words we wish Jesus had never said”. (We’re in the midst of an 8-week series of that title)The words of Jesus in John 14 were the topic of the morning: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
We want to be a faith community that is able to discuss these words…understanding the context, realizing that they're not a threat from Jesus, but instead words of comfort and hope.
If you’re interested, you can listen to the beginning of this incredibly important conversation on our podcast…click here Crossings podcasts
We concluded the gathering with some words Kevin Reeve wrote on Friday afternoon before that Sunday. (We actually made it into a bookmark and handed it out as people left that day)
Here they are...
way
everybody wins:
anything else
an approximate grace
a synthetic
manmade
substitute
half-Truth
on the way
but not the Way
the Way
is a man
not a mantra
a direction
not an equation
transforming action
not a transaction
a methodology
not a theology
a pearl in a field
to be discovered
or passed over
underfoot
under all
this mercy
the shocking openness
the sheer availability
sometimes lost in translation
the context is crucial
intended as comfort
a farewell assurance
a promise
a weightless yoke:
love my way
it’s the new rule
superseding
engulfing
covering
all before it
mistaken as a wall
misused as a sword
misapplied as limiting
and combined
with dangerous words—
election, chosen, few—
this mercy
has disabled many
its simplicity
simply missed:
the Way
the Truth
is His life
Mark Nelson at 9:59 PM 1comments
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at 4:14 PM
Rob said... Sounds like an awesome series.
Verses like that, along with 1 Tim 2:5 "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" and Matt 7:14 "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few will find it" that both humble me to my knees and spur me on to live more missionally.