Just a quote today, from an excelent multi-denominational discussion on salvation over at internetmonk.com. This comes fromWilliam Cwirla, a Lutheran pastor:
"As a sacramental aside, worship is a kairotic moment in chronos, an eternal moment in historical time and place. “Today, this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21). Every act of God, whether the preaching of the good news of salvation or the application of salvation in Baptism or the Holy Supper is a kairotic moment of salvation in chronological time and place. The eternal breaks in to the temporal, the infinite resides in the finite, and all that God has done for us and for our salvation is brought to bear on us in our own here and now."
I love the almost paradoxical relationship of chronos (our own chronological time) and kairos (God's infinate time). Makes me feel like the Red Queen (or was that the White Queen, I can't keep them strait.)
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