The operative word in Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz’s book, The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything, is home. God creates and God makes a home with us, and Adam and Eve and humans de-home creation and God become absent from that “with us” kind-of-home, and redemption is about liberating humans from their de-homing and un-homing as God makes a home with us again. God secures a people with whom God will dwell by making a home-making covenant with them. That’s Genesis and Exodus in their story of everything.
The scope of “kingdom”, like the old VBS song, becomes deep and wide, and it doesn’t require the Starship Enterprise to seek out and discover. It’s not an ideological place, but It’s here to live into. It becomes more real than ever. In a Pauline way, The Law is Morphing/has morphed into The Life. The Way opens The Truth, which opens to The Life! Thank you!
I agree with Pamela - this is “profoundly meaningful”!
Finding the faith and strength to unplug from “The Matrix”!
This is so good—speaking of the at-home, with-us, God. It shows God’s design, direction and desire. Thank you!
“God’s covenant is not simply to save, though that it does, but instead salvation has a design and direction: So God can once again be at-home with those who want to dwell at home with God.”
The scope of “kingdom”, like the old VBS song, becomes deep and wide, and it doesn’t require the Starship Enterprise to seek out and discover. It’s not an ideological place, but It’s here to live into. It becomes more real than ever. In a Pauline way, The Law is Morphing/has morphed into The Life. The Way opens The Truth, which opens to The Life! Thank you!
I agree with Pamela - this is “profoundly meaningful”!
Finding the faith and strength to unplug from “The Matrix”!
This is so good—speaking of the at-home, with-us, God. It shows God’s design, direction and desire. Thank you!
“God’s covenant is not simply to save, though that it does, but instead salvation has a design and direction: So God can once again be at-home with those who want to dwell at home with God.”
Profoundly meaningful.