This post comes as a reflection from a church service I attended recently. The pastor is a very passionate guy and his heart for the church is totally obvious. Remember also, that I attended only one service and have little precedence for how the church runs as a whole. The discussion was how Christ came to save "YOU" or "Me" - the individual.
My thoughts:
If we rest on one message each week we have a thin theology. We must take the message week after week; redundantly coming in worship to understand.
If we rest on an individualistic gospel we are left skinny and thin. Yet if we swing and hold too tightly to communal gospel we miss an understanding of self. We must balance the two for Christ cannot be assumed to rest on one spectrum. He indeed breaches the chasm between the two approaches. It is only our language that provides a momentary distinction, that, when inappropriately focused on, delivers a singular, thin philosophy of God, which in turn creates thin theology. The cross bridges our philosophical gap. The resurrection overrides even the necessity for a gap, for it was and is cosmic fulfillment, realized fully in the eschaton.
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