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eeb9bce "The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think jesus spirituality good-friday T.S. Eliot
6a9d7e5 Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore. good-friday sin Nadia Bolz-Weber
a1d51ec "Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hell. He who knew not sin took on our sin so that we might be free of it. God still stoops, in your life and mine, condescends. "Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" he asked his disciples, before his way up Golgotha. Our answer is an obvious, "No!" His cup is not only the cup of crucifixion and death, it is the bloody, bloody cup that one must drink if one is going to get mixed up in us. Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it. As Chesterton writes, "Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate ... Real love has always ended in bloodshed." violence love crucifixion divine-condescension good-friday incarnation salvation cross jesus-christ easter William H. Willimon