“The Gospel – the Good News – is not just about words – a message given by a prophet to which we politely listen and either accept or reject. It is about what really happens in life, about God entering that place, and transforming it.

That “place” is this life of brokenness, loss, sin, sorrow and death. Jesus did not come to teach us how to pretend all of that doesn’t exist or to talk our way out of it or even how to make it through or explain it.

He came to be in it, to transform it. To journey through it, to reconcile in the way that only his sacrifice could.”

— Amy Welborn, typically wise, at Via Media.
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