Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope Rowe Kavin
Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope Rowe Kavin At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking. We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what…
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Christianity's Surprise: A Sure and Certain Hope Rowe Kavin
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking. We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was - and what it still can be. Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform.
We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst. We need to recover the surprise of Christianity. Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning.
This remembering and relearning can, in turn, surprise us all over again and chart a course for our witness