Sharing Our Words & Wounds

Posted by Chris Breslin on March 19, 2017 in

03/19/2017

Lamentations 4:17-22

Chris Breslin

“What house is it to which the Bible is the door? What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?” -Karl Barth

“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary rules, nor with “going with the flow” or “doing what comes naturally”, but with the learning of the language, in the present, which will equip us to speak it fluently in God’s new world.” –N.T. Wright

“If God rescues, liberates, and protects as their cherished biblical story tells them, how could such events occur? If God dwells with them in the Jerusalem temple, if God makes covenants with them to be their God, then how could these things happen? Even worse, why did God do these things to them? Like a marriage after a bitter, unanticipated divorce, their shared story is in splinters, and there is no new story to replace it. The people’s symbolic world collapsed with their buildings.” –Kathleen O’Connor

Any resurrection of the church as the body of Christ must begin with lament, which is an honest look at the brokenness of the church.” –Fr. Emmanuel Katongole

Scripture:

Revelation 6:9-10

Psalm 100

Psalm 30

Psalm 86

Psalm 5:11-12

Psalm 51

Psalm 22

Colossians 1:15

Colossians 1:17

Romans 8:22

Galatians 2:20