Here’s a sneak peek at a forthcoming episode of Crackers and Grape Juice with my friend and mentor, Rev. Will Willimon, about his new book Heaven and Earth.
and I jump at every opportunity to talk to Will.At the beginning of the conversation, Will helps us (helped me) begin to find he words for how the church can respond when faced with the wages of sin and death.
Hamas’s massacre in Israel and Israel’s response in Gaza is a reminder to us that, as Karl Barth noted, the church has no other time but the time of Advent; that is, we’re waiting for Christ to come again and do what sinful humanity cannot do in a world captive still to Sin, Death, and the Devil. It’s not within our own power to make a fresh start. If we’re to have a future different from the past, it must come as a gift, something not of our devising. What we need is a God who refuses to be trapped in eternity, a God who not only cares about us but is willing to show up among us and do something with us, here, now.
I hope you’re blessed by joining in the conversation.
Heaven and Earth