What does it mean that Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not? What does it mean to follow Jesus into this world? What does it mean to be filled, led, empowered by the Spirit of Jesus? Hmmm ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Good Friday
Here is my Good Friday meditation, written many years ago but some of you may not have seen it. I wrote this for a theology class at Luther Seminary in 1998 -- the assignment was to write a paper expressing our personal theology. Being a little bit of a rebel (!) I decided to do my personal theology in narrative form. Partly this was a way to avoid boredom (ever been bored writing college papers?) but partly it was also because I truly believe that a story often captures theology better than an essay. Essays make truth about facts and arguments. Knowledge is about analysis, sort of like getting to know a frog by taking it apart in a dissection tray. In narrative, truth is about the story. Knowledge is about action and character and passion, sort of like a ten year old kid wading around in a springtime ditch trying to catch frogs. Who knows the frog better -- the biology student or the ten year old? Hard to say. But the two ways of knowing are radically different.
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