Great Chapter

Just some thoughts form a great chapter from Simply Christian especially as we prepare for Easter

“Nothing in all the history of Paganism comes anywhere near this combination of event, intention, and meaning. Nothing in Judaism had prepared for it, except in puzzling shadowy prophecy. The death of Jesus of Nazareth as the king of the Jews, the bearer of Israel’s destiny, the fulfillment of God’s promises to his people of old, is either the most stupid, senseless waste and misunderstand the world has ever seen, or it is the fulcrum around which world history turns.” Wright, Simply Christian, 111

“The time had now come when, at last, God would rescue his people, and the whole world, not from mere political enemies, but from evil itself, from sin which had enslaved them. His death would do what the temple, with its sacrificial system, had pointed to but never actually accomplished. In meeting the fate that was rushing toward him, he would be the place where heaven and earth had met, as he hung suspended between the two. He would be the place where God’s future arrived in the present, with the kingdom of God celebrating its triumph over the kingdoms of the world by refusing to join in their spiral of violence.”