Today was the first day here at the Academy, as we call it. I feel like we have been jump started into learning and already feel a sense for the deep and meaningful things we are going to learn all year here.
To give a short example, we talked of the centrality of the incarnation for community. That all community is based upon the assumption that Christ did everything that was claimed in the Gospels and today is working his redemption between us. But what I thought was very interesting in this was the way Diedrich Bonhoffer in "Life in Community," went on to say that to become and in becoming a community our central purpose is to confess Jesus' presence among us, or confessing His Presence continually. The thought of the incarnation being central was not a surprise but the way he put the idea of confessing that Christ is already doing and has done was new to me. I think he simplified something that I have definitely tried to think of but never gotten far enough down the road to see it as just telling of what Christ is already doing.
Such a great day.. Hope some of this makes sense!
p.s. tomorrow holds something about the workshop for prayer is in the Psalms, where we find our inadequacy in many senses to pray the prayers but simply join Christ as He prays and intercedes and thus reaching the Father with our prayers... more to come and understand!
