Welcome to “Big Questions,” a recurring feature on the Preaching Collective, where we will look at the big questions that preachers face on a weekly basis. We’ll ask a panel of our practitioners and invite you to respond as well.
Harper Lee’s newly published book, Go Set a Watchman, has been the topic of many reviews. Some applaud this sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird, and some bemoan the fact that it is not as good as Lee’s first book. However, there is much to be learned and much to challenge our inner selves in this novel.
He says that “in Christ,” through what Christ has done for us in his life, death and resurrection, through his empowering Spirit and inspiring example and our relationship with Christ, God is recreating, restoring us to what he originally intended us to be. The Greek word that Paul uses literally means a “masterpiece.”
