breakfast byte: God’s own idea

Watercolor, 5″x7″, available in my eBay store (button to left).

“How odd that it is apparently not God’s purpose to minister day by day to the world by direct revelation. Rather, the surprising fact is that God has chosen to minister to humanity through a scandalously visible community, the church, and to minister to the church through human agency, by calling ordinary, vulnerable, pride-prone persons into the ministry of word and sacrament. However vulnerable it may be to wretched distortions and abuses, curiously enough it seems to be God’s own idea” (Thomas Oden).

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