"God is ever-present in our lives and the lives of all human beings, but
not to engage in magical manipulation of the forces of the universe.
Creation is not control. God's creative Spirit is, was, and always will
be the ongoing involvement of a loving God made known to us supremely in
the person of Jesus the Christ. Jesus--through whom we understand God
as incarnate in our world--offers us the clearest intellectual and
relational image of God. In mission we are collaborators with the
ongoing missional activities of the Creator God, revealed through the
person of Jesus Christ and the experience of the ever-present Holy
Spirit."
The Rev. Dr. John Edward Nuessle
"We believe that those dear folk who say -- presuming intellectual
humility - that God is ultimate, distant, ineffable and unknowable, are
wrong. God is not vague and indistinct, aloof and indiscernible. God has
a face, a name, a certain way of talking and living, and dying, and
rising. Jesus Christ - who lived briefly, died violently and rose
unexpectedly - is the One in whom “all the fullness of God chose to
dwell” (Col. 1:19)."
Bishop Will Willimon
The only way we could hope to understand God is to meet God in a way that is familiar to us. We do not become God but instead God becomes us, with a face, a name, a certain way of talking. God comes into the world as we do; vulnerable. Last night we discussed the vulnerability of babies; the complete reliance upon the parent. It doesn't get much more human than that!
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