What do you boast about, and what is your shame, in our narcissistic culture and time? Despite the parodies of religious life as masochistic guilt – can you not recognize Paul’s celebration of ‘suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us’?
The wonder of this gospel is not our merit, but God’s reconciling act in Christ. We share the human mortality and fallibility and mortality, from Adam’s choice through our own. Does ‘you’re just like Adam’ define us? No – we can be just like some other guy!
It’s a metaphysical (so unfamiliar to us) construction of meaning: just as Adam’s story operates to condemn us all, so Christ’s story can redeem us all. Adam puts us wrong – Christ puts us right.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday, July 25 - Romans 5
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