"Living as a Resurrection People"

            I have launched a new proclamation series, entitled: “Living as a Resurrection People.”  For Christians, the Resurrection of Christ represents a tipping point in cosmic history.  With the Resurrection, God’s work of healing, redeeming, and transforming the cosmos into a New Creation has been refealed.  At the same time, God’s Reign has not yet been fully established.  We still live in the old world of sin and death.  So, we live in an interim period, between the Resurrection and the consummation of God’s Reign. 

As followers of Christ, how are we to live in this awkward interim period between the Resurrection and the New Creation?  That is, how are we to live as Resurrection people?

Over the next weeks, we will explore these questions.  We will examine the attitudes, life-style, and core values which define what it means to live as a Resurrection People in the interim.  To live as a resurrection people means that God invites us into a partnership, where we become “created co-creators,” working with God to establish God’s Reign throughout this planet by becoming agents of justice, compassion, and environmental stewardship.

This is the schedule of proclamations for the series:

May 1              Joy

May 8              Hope (Mother’s Day)

May 15            Community (Pentecost Sunday)

May 22            Justice

May 29            Compassion

June 5             Old Creation/New Creation