The good bishop begins by talking about God, continues by understanding that God is invested in the difficult places in this world, and rejoices with the unsuspecting in God's redemptive presence in the difficulties. Evangelism, perhaps surprised-by-joy evangelism, indeed. Thank you, Bp. Willimon, for writing this. Thank you, Center for Barth Studies, for posting this.
CD Par 17 “The Revelation of God as the Abolition of Religion.” “The revelation of God in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the judging but also reconciling presence of God in the world of human religion, that is, in the realm of man’s attempts to justify and sanctify himself before a capricious and arbitrary picture of God. The church is the locus of true religion, so far as through grace it lives by grace.” Page 280 “Outpouring” means in the totality of human life, notably as originating first in the person first of our Lord Jesus Christ engaged in His own life for us all (as thenaothor notes) which is life together, with God, one another and as we truly are as human beings, according to God’s own prior electing of Godself to be the God of human beings and thus also His human beings also to be His human beings, for covenant fellowship.
The good bishop begins by talking about God, continues by understanding that God is invested in the difficult places in this world, and rejoices with the unsuspecting in God's redemptive presence in the difficulties. Evangelism, perhaps surprised-by-joy evangelism, indeed. Thank you, Bp. Willimon, for writing this. Thank you, Center for Barth Studies, for posting this.
CD Par 17 “The Revelation of God as the Abolition of Religion.” “The revelation of God in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the judging but also reconciling presence of God in the world of human religion, that is, in the realm of man’s attempts to justify and sanctify himself before a capricious and arbitrary picture of God. The church is the locus of true religion, so far as through grace it lives by grace.” Page 280 “Outpouring” means in the totality of human life, notably as originating first in the person first of our Lord Jesus Christ engaged in His own life for us all (as thenaothor notes) which is life together, with God, one another and as we truly are as human beings, according to God’s own prior electing of Godself to be the God of human beings and thus also His human beings also to be His human beings, for covenant fellowship.