Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Resurrection Life

... The way we live our lives, the impulses and desires we have to get in on what God is doing in the wonders of creations and the mess of history, is activated now by Jesus' resurrection. There is no living worth its salt that is not the consequence of the action of God in Jesus through the Holy Spirit: "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you" (Rom. 8:11). ...

Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

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