Suffering
"A letter of encouragement to the Christian resident aliens in Asia Minor. Their conditions as strangers and outsiders, threatens the stability of a community. The writer assures them that this is the normal condition of any truly Christian community"
This context gives rise to what seems to be a lentan theme of suffering. My wife, who works as a secretary for a methodist and a presbyterian chruch, told me that Ash wednesday is about remembering we are dust and to dust we shall return. It strikes me that lent is a time to examine a life of death. Death to self, a welcoming of suffering and strife for the sake of Christ. Isn't that an appropriate reminder as we come to build to Good Friday. Isn't that life of death that which will make sweet resurrection Sunday?
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