{"id":270,"date":"2008-03-16T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/03\/call-and-respon.html"},"modified":"2008-03-16T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T18:14:08","slug":"call-and-respon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/03\/call-and-respon.html","title":{"rendered":"Call and Response: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I survey the wondrous cross, I am horrified.<\/em>  <\/span>Tattered and torn skin\u2026blood matted hair\u2026pain induced quivers\u2026the death of God.  <\/span>A man so battered and betrayed that words\u2026fail.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When I survey the wondrous cross, its beauty startles me.<\/em>  <\/span>The life\u2026the love\u2026the compassion\u2026of the death of God.  <\/span>It\u2026no, He summons me to feast upon that which I gaze.  <\/span>For some unresolved reason I accept.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I survey the wondrous cross, I am haunted.<\/em>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For my soul knows\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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my inmost being bows in contrition\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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compunction convicts.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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My hands, my thoughts, my eyes betray the reason for the death of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I survey the wondrous cross, I am mystified.  <\/span><\/em>I search for it\u2019s meaning, for it\u2019s understanding\u2026for the \u201cwhy\u2019s\u201d of what I see.  <\/span>What was God doing on the cross?  <\/span>There are so many answers.  <\/span>The more doctrine digested the more elusive and simultaneously adjacent the death of God becomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Peter, why couldn\u2019t you have kept it\u2019s meaning to yourself?  <\/span>\u201cTo this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example<\/strong>, that you should follow in his steps.\u201d<\/strong>  <\/span>(1 Peter 2.21)  <\/span>Why must you involve us?  <\/span>Why must you summon me?  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As if, we want to\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>as if I am willing\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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to follow the example of Christ and His cross.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The cross is an example, an intricate design, on which we lay the transparent parchment of our lives and sketch our feeble outlines.  <\/span>The cross is to be followed, like tracks in the snow, we step high and sink in deep to the openings made by The One who has gone before.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Excruciare<\/em>\u2026Latin for \u201cout of the cross.\u201d  <\/span>Excruciating People\u2014those who live life out of the cross.  <\/span>Christians\u2014those who have accepted the invitation to live an excruciating life.<\/em>  <\/span>The cross is a way of life\u2026an ethos, mores not just morals.  <\/span>The cross is a culture for pain-absorbing, peace-making, love-wielding, price-paying, cup-drinking people.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When I survey the wondrous cross, I am terrified<\/em>.  <\/span>For what I see and what I know demands my soul, my life, my all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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