God refuses to be God without us.
We asked God to say something definite and God, getting personal, sent Jesus Christ. We were surprised. God was other than we imagined. We can’t make God into whatever we please. Jesus demonstrated that God is better than omnipotent, omniscient or any other high-sounding abstraction. God is love embodied: nonviolent, relentlessly seeking, convening, suffering love. Human happiness is life lived in response to the God we’ve got. It’s good news: Because God really was in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world to God, we can be with God.
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| — | Will Willimon in response to the question, “What is the gospel in seven words?” |
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