The Christian Century

God's all-encompassing love enters the world in the person of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Spirit.

Jesus Christ revitalizes, personalizes and universalizes God's covenants with the people of Israel.

We are The Church of Infinite Chances, where every sinner is a saint and vice versa. "Sinners welcome," reads the banner on my church.

I used only six words; I rested on the seventh.

The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is working to infiltrate the whole creation with God's love.

Our "no" is a human rejection of God's claim on us as our creator, sustainer and lord, a rejection that produces alienation and isolation, even from ourselves.

According to both Irenaus and Athanasios, God became like us so that we might become like God. Clement observes that through obedience one "becomes a god while still walking in the flesh."

The gospel begins and ends with God. Jesus makes God's action good news. But the word "Jesus" alone doesn't help me; such Jesus is a nice guy, but I need Jesus Christ, God's anointed.

But not everyone will grow and change.

Christ effected our reconciliation with God and invested in us, so that we may become teeming vessels of witness and service to others.