words from n.t. wright

Here are some quotes which I thought well enough of to jot down in my notebook while reading.

Every Eucharist is a little Christmas as well as a little Easter.

There is a post about the Eucharist which I have wanted to write for a while, maybe I’ll get to it before I lose the interest.

[W]hen the church is living out the kingdom of God, the word of God will spread powerfully and do its own work.

Let us not rob ourselves of the hope that comes forward from God’s future to sustain us in the present. God’s new world has begun. If we don’t see it breaking into the present world, we are denying the energizing foundation of Christian life.¹

I was ‘surprised’ most by N.T. Wright’s  description of the kingdom of God, especially how I relate to it. The explanation given about the breaking of the veil between God’s world and our own through the acts of Jesus Christ is especially moving. Wright describes how our work today is to live oriented to the reality that God has come as man and given us the power to begin the transformation of the earthly kingdom into a reflection of the heavenly kingdom.

That is a mouthful, which says, we—that is us Christians—are supposed to be getting to work in the here and now. The work isn’t beyond our abilities—that is of course through the power of Christ Jesus—something which must be done by God, later on, because the world is just too evil, full of sin, too far gone.

That is a gospel which helps someone finds hope for getting up in the morning.

1. Wright, N.T. Surprised by Hope. HarperOne, New York. 2008, p267, 275,276. [↩]