Today's Thinker: Dallas Willard

To kick off the blog, I have to challenge everyone to think about these words from Dallas Willard's The Spirit of the Disciplines:

Christ's death [was]...the point where his life was most fully displayed and triumphant, forever breaking the power of sin over concrete human existence.

Think about it. As Willard suggests, many people, Christians included, think of Christ's death as the necessary penalty for sin to gain forgiveness for the world. But what if his death was the ultimate expression of his life, the highest life-form to ever live, the abundant life in full abundance. The cross wasn't just something Christ had to endure, but the climactic event which, with his resurrection, proved that "in him was life."

Incredible!