"Death and resurrection. It's the impossibility around which every other impossibility of the Christian faith orbits....Most days I don't know which is harder for me to believe: that God reanimated the brain functions of a man three days dead, or that God can bring back to life all the beautiful things we have killed. Both seem pretty unlikely to me.
Sometimes I think what the church needs most is to recover some of its weird.
In the ritual of baptism, our ancestors acted out the bizarre truth of the Christian identity: We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love.
There's nothing normal about that."
--Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday, p. 21-22
photo credit: Jesus Saves Wept by Jason Morrison, on Flickr
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