25 August 2024
But the cross, as expounded in the New Testament, speaks of a victory
that goes deeper than that. Just as evil is more than the sum total of
individual act of wrongdoings, so Jesus' victory over is more than the sum
total of subsequent of selfless love. Christian faith, faith in the crucified
Jesus, is more than the individual belief that he died for me, vital through
that is. It is faith that on the cross Jesus in principle won the victory over
sin. Violence, pride, arrogance and even death itself, and that victory can now
be implemented. This faith refuses to accept that violence, greed and pride are
unassailable and unchangeable. This faith will go to work to challenge and
subverting those destructive forces, in ourselves, in our local communities, in
our corporate and political life, in the belief, albeit often in the teeth of
the evidence, that they have been defeated and that the power of God’s love e
is stronger than they are. To say that the cross changed the world is a
statement of faith, but that is not blind faith, whistling in the dark. It is
faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And
it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to
bear in healing, reconciliation, and hope.
N.T. Wright
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