God in 100 Words or Less

February 17, 2010

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Amy Julia Becker

"He is the image of the invisible God..." (Colossians 1:15).

In Jesus, we see God, broken and beautiful. The abstract becomes concrete. In Jesus, we see God, who welcomes children, touches a bleeding woman, a leper, a blind man, challenges religious leaders and prostitutes alike. We see God, who condemns the sin that breaks us, who heals and restores the broken. We see God, on the cross, broken for us. God, raised to life, beautiful. In Jesus, we see God, the one who walked among us, the one who, amidst our brokenness, calls forth our beauty.

Amy Julia Becker is a writer, a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, wife to Peter, and mother to Penny and William. She has written one book, Penelope Ayers: A Memoir*, and blogs at Thin Places.*

Christine Sine

God is love. But what does that mean? It seems incomprehensible that God cares deeply and passionately for all created beings. The God we rejected did not walk away from us.

God's loving heart aches at our suffering and the pain this separation unleashed in the created world. God is not vengeful. He lovingly sent his son Jesus as a human child to reveal his true nature -- a caring, compassionate, loving God who suffers through every agony we endure and who will do everything possible to restore the relationships that human action so grievously corrupted.

Christine Sine and her husband are the founders of Mustard Seed Associates, a network of followers of Jesus that seeks to unleash the creative potential of individuals who want to put God's purposes first in their lives. She blogs at Godspace.

So, who/what do YOU say God is? in 100 Words or Less ...

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