Did anyone hear the sound of a small bomb being dropped?

Huh.

Must have been my imagination.

David Gushee, at Christianity Today:

I was getting ready to preach. As the worship leader was finishing the music set, he offered some unscripted theological reflections. He said something like: "The only thing required of us is to believe that Jesus’ blood saves us. Nothing more. It’s nothing but the blood of Jesus."

In my Baptist context, we’ve heard these thoughts a thousand times. The problem was that I had in my pocket a message in which Jesus himself had a very different answer to the question of salvation.

In reading through Luke, I had discovered that twice (10:25, 18:18) Jesus is asked, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?"

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She wonders…how many more steps until Jesus’ answers to other questions might be brought into the equation as well..

like…"How can a person grown old be born again?"

like…"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

It’s a big, big picture….