What's Your Problem?

Christ is more of an artist than the artists;

He works in the living spirit and the living flesh,

he makes men instead of statues. - Vincent Van Gogh

This quote from Van Gogh expresses the idea that inspired this blog. Several years ago I became profoundly convinced that my greatest problem, my biggest obstacle in life was not my humanity. To be human is not a man or woman's greatest problem; our greatest problem is trying to live independently of God. This propensity to live apart from God is what theologians call sin. Sin, then, properly defined, is our greatest problem, not our humanity. In fact, sin makes us less than human. In the Christian gospel, God has acted in Jesus Christ to rescue us from sin and to restore our humanity.

In the coming weeks, I plan to reflect further on this theme. But the blog will not be limited to biblical and theological reflections on humanity. I intend to reflect on all things related to our humanity, not as an expert on the business of living as a human, but as one waking up and discovering again that we were created to live - to live in skin.