Dunstan: reconciliation

Saturday, March 4, 2017
    Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647
Meditation:
    Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
    —Romans 11:13-15 (ESV)
Quotation:
    The reconciliation of man to God begins when God accepts the child of man, exactly as he is, into a relationship with himself—“this grace wherein we stand.” This He does for the sake of what man is to inherit, to become. And for the means, He gives him over to a Person, Christ, and a community, the Church; and in attachment to these, personality grows, freedom is attained, sin is forgiven, estrangement is ended, capacities for relationship extend. Reconciliation is the Spirit’s liberating work of love, exercised through a Person and a community of persons.
    ... G. R. Dunstan
    See also Rom. 11:13-15; Acts 20:32; Rom. 5:1-2,11; 2 Cor. 5:18-19; Col. 1:19-22; Heb. 2:16-18
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant reconciliation to _____ and _____, for Jesus’ sake. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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