Advent 2019 – Day 20

Last updated on: December 20, 2019 at 8:56 am by Matt Pearson

Advent 2019 – Day 20 2019-12-10T22:02:28-05:00 Matt Pearson

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From Eugene Peterson’s Practice Resurrection:

“Why doesn’t Jesus advertise himself? If he wants to be known as God present with us, to heal and save and bless, why doesn’t he get our attention and let us know pointblank what is going on? If all those verbs and nouns that Paul has spread out for us to consider and receive are the real thing, why doesn’t Jesus at least raise his voice?
The short answer: God reveals himself in personal relationship
and only in personal relationship. God is not a phenomenon to be considered. God is not a force to be used. God is not a proposition to be argued. There is nothing in or of God that is impersonal, nothing abstract, nothing imposed. And God treats us with an equivalent personal dignity. He isn’t out to impress us. He’s here to eat bread with us and receive us into his love just as we are, just where we are.”

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