POWER AND WISDOM
1 Corinthians 1:22-24
For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
PERSONAL CHALLENGE
One of the awesome things about living out my Christianity with an Eastern Orthodox faith practice is how easy it is to connect with the mindset of our forefathers like Paul. We, the Western world, are formed by the age of reason and intellectualism, that shaped the way that the church of the west thinks. Because of that mindset people still look for Christ like the Jews did. Show me a sign of some tangible proof. They challenge the truths of Christ such as incarnation, death on a cross, resurrection, as foolishness and unbelievable fairy tells. But to those who have embraced Christ as their savior, all of this becomes easier to accept. For the Eastern mind, this is all part of the power and mystery of our God.
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