A Time of Theological Déjà vu?

Column by Rev. Roger Wolsey on 10 February 2022 1 Comments

There are certain dynamics taking place today that may remind us of dynamics that took place early in the last century. I suggest that pondering such similarities is not only warranted - but needed.

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Question

The 'broken' language I hear from other Christians sometimes has never felt right to me. Are we all really broken?”

Answer

Recently the above question from a reader prompted me to share this perspective on social media. Based on the responses, it clear there are a lot of folks whose spiritual journey would benefit from hearing this. So, I wanted to share with you my answer.

A lot of Christianity
has it wrong.

 
We are not broken.
 
We are not fallen.
We are not flawed.
We are simply fragile.
We are beautifully distractible.

 
We are self-invested because of love but that love also gives us a slight bias toward justice. We are so deeply invested in life that we can, at times, deny the larger good for the experience of the moment.
 
We are not broken.
 
We are human.
We are flesh and blood,
and we are experiential.

 
Sometimes that makes us better.
Sometimes that makes us worse.

 
It never makes us less.
Or sinful.
Or unredeemable.

 
It means we are real.
It means that life
has a relentless hold on us.

 
The struggles, the stumbles, the seemingly endless short-fallings simply point to our humanity not to our unworthiness. They mean life is difficult — but they also mean life is vibrant, pulsing with potential, ripe with possibility, constantly presenting lessons from which to grow.
 
YOU — you are not broken.
 
You are a unique expression of God here on Earth. You are bursting with potential that has not yet been expressed.
 
You are God’s beloved.
You are NOT broken.
You are in process.

 
You are love
hoping to not only be expressed
but to be recognized.

~ Rev. Mark Sandlin

 

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