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Christ is not killed for telling us to love each other. Christ is executed for exposing the Powers that Be in their idolatrous, murderous lies, and inviting us into a living alternative:
God’s love.
God’s love.
Revealing God’s love to the end, even an end on a Cross, Jesus exposed the Principalities and Powers at the cost of his life.
We fear what such love would cost us, so we reject it out right, or sentimentalise it so it’s emptied of its revolutionary power.
We fear what such love would cost us, so we reject it out right, or sentimentalise it so it’s emptied of its revolutionary power.
Of fear of the cost of the way of the Cross is why we don’t risk Resurrection.
We dare not name the Herrods as foxes, so we see so little transformation.
We dare not name the Herrods as foxes, so we see so little transformation.
The “twist” in the narrative, Resurrection, is an affirmation of Christ’s revolutionary love to the end.
The power we see on the Cross, exposing the Powers for what they are while conquering them, is the same power which raised Jesus from the grave.
The power we see on the Cross, exposing the Powers for what they are while conquering them, is the same power which raised Jesus from the grave.
