Fauthorand Poul Hoffman mentions to longingandthat "we humans were created to live in the Garden of Eden, and that Our lives basically consists of in searching for PAradiset. We keep thinking it's around the next corner, and sometimes we experience a moment in the stars and think we're there. But we don't find Paradiset. Thet overgrown with hawthorn and thistle and lost in desert sand somewhere in the Middle East where four rivers had once their source."
But there is good news. FFor example. gives Paul's letters give us a sense of, what the cross has to say into our Longing for peace, order, life, love and power.
In excerpt mentions Paul, that "Jesus made peace by the blood of the cross,“ and "God shows his love towards us, in that Christ died for us" -that "the believer is buried with him in baptism into death, and raised with Christ"and that "Jesus was crucified because of sin, the flesh, the old man, the world, the law."
Ja, corset puts everything into a universal and cosmic contextbecause bycorset "the fence, the dividing wall, is torn down between Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond and free, those who are near and those who are far away."
However, itto message about the cross has since the first congregation caused contradiction, and basically Seen I think, that all opposition to Christianity is rooted in opposition to the cross - and where the message of the cross prevails, the darkness rises. Unfortunately, this is our condition at all times. MAnd remember that we leads together in victorysTrain of the Lord of the Cross, Jesus Christ, and at the foot of the cross all ours longings, for they have in him "Their yes."
Niels Peder Nielsen is chairman of the board of the Danish European Mission and assistant pastor at Silkeborg Oasis Church.
