Scripture: Romans 12
People are waiting for things to get back to normal, get back to the way they were. But the Christian faith is not like that. It is not about getting back to normal. It begins in death – Christ’s and ours – death to the old way of dominance, destruction, and dysfunction in the world. Just as Jesus was resurrected in a new and glorified form, so our lives in Christ (as Paul puts it) are changed and glorified. We can’t go back to the old. Jesus came and proclaimed that the Kingdom or Realm of God was at hand and was accessible here and now. He showed how this Realm of God existed in the Bigger Minds of those gave themselves to the Path and were transformed by the presence of the Holy Spirit. He showed how the Domination Systems of the world did not express God’s will, and how his Way overturned the ways of greed and class divisions and ethnic hostilities, just the way he overturned the tables in the Jerusalem temple.
