N.T Wright // a nice challenge to my beliefs

It’s been a little while since Kristen and I have been able to get away and just relax. So this week, we’re hitting the beach for some time to refocus and recalibrate before diving back in to the second half of the year with all of it’s new responsibilities and challenges. No internet this week, but I plan on popping off some short posts from the phone.

Wanted to share with you something I read today in N.T Wright’s book The Challenge of Jesus. Since this keypad is extremely tiny, you’re gonna miss most of the context (cause I’m not gonna type it all), but suffice it to say that it was good context that was rethinking much of our modern/postmodern interpretation of who Jesus was and what first century thought was all about.

All that to say that Wright wrote this that deeply moved me today, “Then, on Easter morning, it is the first day of the week. Creation is complete; new creation can now begin. The Spirit who brooded over waters of creation at the beginning broods now over God’s world, ready to bring it bursting to springtime life. Mary goes to the tomb while it is still dark, and in the morning light meets Jesus in the garden. She thinks he’s the gardener, as in one important sense he indeed is. This is the new creation. This is the new Genesis.

Those last four sentences are absolutely beautiful.

Wright has been challenging, but enlightening and profound paragraphs like that make it all worth it.