In the incarnation God pitched the divine tent, not in a building, but in a human body. Jesus Christ, the living temple, was given up to his enemies and destroyed. Death and destruction were not the last word. Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. In every age the cruciform pattern of death and resurrection is made concrete in the lives of Christians. While for some, this pattern is reproduced literally in their martyrdoms, for most of us, it is the daily dying and rising begun in our baptism and lived out daily by virtue of God’s grace at work in us.
Wars, earthquakes, famines, and plagues occur with painful frequency and have done so from the beginning. The cross casts its shadow not only on individuals but on nations, peoples and creation itself. Our evangelical mission is to proclaim the wisdom of the cross and the promise of the resurrection to people who see only death and destruction while not failing to take their suffering seriously.
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