Is God big?

I normally don't like trying to read two books at the one time. I've enough trouble trying to reflect/remember what's in one! This said I'm enjoying reading The Shape of Tings to Come along side St. Athanasius on the Incarnation. Frost and Hirsch talk a lot about incarnational mission and well Athanasius talks a lot about The Incarnation, so they sit nicely together.

I loved this following bit from St A;

"by what seems His utter poverty and weakness on the cross He overturns the pomp and parade of idols, and quietly and hiddenly wins over the mockers and unbelievers to recognise Him as God".

This view of God from Athanasius I would suggest is part of what Frost and Hirsch want us to grasp. A God of poverty and weakness who goes about things not with pomp and parade but quietly and hiddenly. Indeed when I think of God being big or powerful it leaves me cold, but here, here is a God before whom I have no response but to fall on my knees and worship.

Comments

[steve hollinghurst]

i think a good connection brodie. and a good corrective to the tendancy to power and comptetence as 'gaurantees' of success in church growth etc. dying to live is always to be at the heart of incarnationl mission in which like St Paul we simply hold a great treasure in clay jars