In an increasingly polarised world, championing the radical love and mercy shown by Jesus is likely to bring hostility from all sides.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Scandal
The particularity of Jesus’s identity scandalises our tribal sensibilities, but our attempts to erase such details in favour of a more “universal” truth inevitably fail to convey the good news of God with us.
God comes to us in unexpected ways, and the break with conventional religious respectability is even more earth-shattering than the break with conventional reproductive biology.
Jesus’s parables always shock us, and few things shock us more than the outrageous graciousness that God shows us and calls for from us.
When God is moving to do something new among us, it almost always seems scandalous, immoral and offensive to many, and is just as likely to involve those who are regarded as morally suspect.
The incoming Kingdom of God often challenges conventional social norms to such an extent that it is perceived as anarchic or even evil.