Ascension Raises Questions And Offers Hope

Ascension Raises Questions And Offers Hope
Ascension Raises Questions AnThursday is Ascension Day. Many churches are also a sign that Sunday, but, unlike Easter, roll a bit 'attention. Two thoughts immediately come to mind when I think of the resurrection of learning, one comic and one of the most imaginative.

Friend of the seminar was just finished writing his granddaughter tests of coordination. "How did it go?" I asked. "Poor", he said, shaking his head. "Consideration of theology was a doctrine of resurrection. I could not think of what to say so I just wrote," Beam Me Up, Jesus "

It is true. A little class time was spent discussing the Ascension. I guess that gave rise to some sermons Presbyterian ascension.

It is too bad. Although the significance of the rise may be difficult for some to understand, it is a great theological significance. Much that Jesus is radiated upward climb offers believers concrete promises of hope and power.

But many of us face the same problems as my friend did. How can we speak of an event that defies easy explanation?

I think that's where imagination comes in.

References in the New Testament speaks of the ascension of Jesus requires some theological understanding. For example, when Luke in Acts 1:1-11 writes about Jesus' ascension, he describes the event experience of the disciples confused and anxious. Yes, they know Christ have been raised. But they are still poorly known (see Acts 1:6). Jesus, however, consider a second option. He desires for them to be apostles, to be messengers, they sent to meet them. They must be witnesses of what they saw and believed in him.

It is the promise it offers, as it rises. Reformer John Calvin put it this way, "his body was raised above all the heavens, if your power and energy were released and spread beyond all boundaries of heaven and earth." The increase anticipates the day of Pentecost when the Spirit will change these people in a community.

What for me is not to explain how and where Jesus is gone. Question, because I think it's one of the theological imagination. In the resurrection, we are asked to imagine what God has to call us. Apt, Luke recalls the angels cried the disciples. "Why are you looking at?" In other words, suggests Ken Carter is a loyal and work.

Where is our role?

It 'been in my mind on Sunday, I listened to my daughter, "the sharing of experience to help a friend in Joplin, whose family lost their homes. It' was in my mind as I watched the whole Church, and even food preoccupation Valley Circle Park. Where is our role? Where we are called to go? faith, the resurrection of the opinion that lifts us both hope and calls us to work.

Remember the old French film "The Red Balloon?" It was the standard "rainy day" activity in my years of primary school. Pascal, a young boy wearing a red balloon with a mind of its own. It follows him through the streets of Paris, taking in all sorts of adventures. She drew curious looks from others, causing a ruckus at school, but still manages to capture his heart. It was not long before a gang of other children become jealous and ruin ball Pascal. But suddenly, without warning balloons across the city boast a young boy, holding it over Paris. Her rise is a wonder, a testament to joy and love.

My imagination leads me to believe that the ascension of Christ, we also raised as a young Pascal. We have reprinted the story of Christ that is sent to witness what God has done and still hopes to do through us.
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