November 27, 2007

  • Our Newness

    One great book!  Just sharing a simple nudge that I needed to learn this morning, to get the rest of my day started:

    "We are called to be part of God's new creation, called to be agents of
    that new creation here and now. We are called to model and display that
    new creation in symphonies and family life, in restorative justice and
    poetry, in holiness and service to the poor, in politics and painting..."

    -N.T. Wright, Simply Christian, p. 236

    1 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

    Romans 6:4 (NASB)
    Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in the newness of life.

    Ephesians 4:24 (NASB)
    ...and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.