The Boundaries of God’s Grace: Toward a Larger Vision of Truth

In preparing to speak this Sunday on Luke 4:22-30, I’m struck by the ways Jesus (then and now) challenges our boundaries and blows open the scope of his grace.

The Quaker author and activist, Parker Palmer, writes in The Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America’s Public Life:

“At the heart of any authentic religious experience is the recognition that God’s nature is too huge, God’s movement too deep, ever to be comprehended by a single conception or point of view … God’s truth is singular and eternal, but the forms in which we give it expression are as finite and fragile as clay pots, and we must always be ready to break them open on behalf of a larger vision of truth.”

[Update: I gave the message on January 31 at The Bridge Community; it is linked here.]

Related posts:

1. Truth Is Not An Abstract Idea
2. The “Jealousy” of God