RT @nick_routledge: @ChurchLifeND What catches me here is the recovery of immortality as larger than “life after death”: creaturely existence gathered, surrendered, ratified and transfigured in God. Resurrection doesn't merely follow death; it inaugurates the eternal form wherein mortal life ripens, here and now.
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In the end, the mystery of Christ is this: evil exposed, judged, and overcome; ordinary creaturely life transfigured through a vivifying communion with the living God; Creation's broken relations healed; all things made new in the fullness of peace for which they were created. Here, Pir Vilayat Khan basically says it. Yet within a Christic horizon, authenticity means more: submitting to the purification through which we become who and what we truly are in Christ, fully alive through cruciform communion, resurrection and the renewal of all things Painting of cross and calligraphy: Purify Yourself By The Power Of Authenticity
@FrontPorchRepub What if resurrection both enables and follows surrender? Christ’s New Creation rises among us, drawing us past forms too small to bear the greater Life. That attraction meets us as Bonhoeffer’s costly grace; our dying into life becomes a cruciform passage into eternal communion.
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