• The Blessed Ones

  • Jan 29 2023
  • Length: 42 mins
  • Podcast

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  • Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

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    Throughout this season 

    we are going to come back to one theme:

    How do we experience grace?

    This is not Biblical language, but rather,

    language that comes from the controversies 

    that happened five hundred years ago.

     

    The terms from the reformation

    introduced a vagueness into the Christian experience,

    that persists to the present day.

    The New Testament talks about life in the Holy Spirit.

    And this life in the Holy Spirit 

    is the experience 

    of God's favour, 

    goodness,

    lovingkindness,

    and Person, Presence, and Power in our lives.

     

    One passage of scripture that suffers from 

    a vague interpretation

    is today's gospel.

    The Beatitudes.

    Because I grew up in a liberal church,

    I have heard the beatitudes used to support

    a variety of political and social causes.

     

    And preachers can get away with this

    because the English translation is vague and broad.

    And the words in our Bibles are bland enough

    that anyone can read into them their own interpretations.

    And a number of errors have become common,

    like living in poverty is a better way of life

    than being prosperous.

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