Christianity is the Context

“Christianity is not offered up as one truth among many, or as one version of a single truth common to all.  Real Christianity…is both the truth that makes sense of all other truths, and the truth that offers itself as the framework within which those other truths will find their meaning.”

(N. T. Wright)

The truth of Christianity is the context – it is the single category – for thinking about and understanding everything that happens in the world, not the other way around.

We don’t measure Christianity by the things that happen around us: we don’t understand God through the lens of 9-11, or earthquakes and tsunamis, or wars or the deaths of the people that we love. We measure those things - and think about and understand those things - through the lens of Christianity, through the lens of resurrection, through the lens of a God who loves us, and who came to us and entered into and endured our human condition with all of its limitations and temptations; a God who set himself up to die in order that we might live eternally.