To avoid the excarnation intrinsic to alienation, religion must be freed from being another element in the acceleration of a person’s or family’s dynamic stabilization and instead be returned to an orientation to encounter a living world and the living God in the world.

the only way forward and through, would be to die to who I had thought Christ was, die to what I thought it meant to be Christian, and actually begin to figure out what it means to me.

The point of having Jesus at the centre of a religion or a faith is that one has Jesus: not a cypher, a strange silhouetted Christfigure, nor yet an icon, but the one Jesus the New Testament writers know, the one born in Palestine in the reign of Augustus Caesar, and crucified outside Jerusalem in the reign of his successor Tiberius. Christianity a

This collision of opposites is not just a theory, concept, or idea for Paul. It is a new reality that impacts being itself; it is the bringing forth of an all-new realm of being, a realm in which weakness is strength. This realm is called “Christ,” and to be in it is to be “in Christ.”