Matt, one of our Immanuel members, said something this week that will stick with me. He was talking about Christ's sacrifice and about the Lord's Supper and said "What Christ knows is that He is the only human being to every be completely whole. Unlike the rest of us, who are God's image, but broken. And so, instead of demanding we become whole like Him, something we are incapable of doing, He was broken for us, so that we might be made whole in Him."
Great stuff. Thanks Matt.
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An addendum:
It's not just that Christ makes us whole... (I would argue that this is yet to come)... What I was trying to say is that through the life of Christ, our brokeness is exchanged for his and in this way takes on new value. Like the bread in communion and the feeding of the five thousand, our lives in the hand of Christ are "broken" and experience a divine multiplication that is extended to the "crowds." Not only do we get to experience Christ's wholeness in our lives as a supreme blessing to each of us individually, but our brokeness - instead of being void and empty - takes on new value by "feeding the hungry." We get the best of both worlds...
Excellent thoughts, Matt. Thanks for sharing, Kester.
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