good news

We heard the good news today in chapel. It was in the form of a lengthy life story of one of our campus employees. As I listened, I thought of Jesus' words, "I came that you might have life, and more abundantly." Basically, that's it. That's what the four narratives contain. Jesus goes around giving people life and teaching them to live that life. The good news, "I've got life to give." Give. Gift.
Today we heard a living man up on the platform quietly telling us about receiving a gift. It was offered and he took it. Life begun. Relationship.
Basically that was how Jesus did it, offered himself, taught us how to take him. He didn't make a big deal to us about how the gift would be made possible, he took care of that. Just offered himself. I'm sad that we've added so much to the gift that we've made it less than it is. We've taken away the spirituality of it. We've removed the friendship. We've drained the life.
Good news is the same as it's always been. Though we've misrepresented it and made a bomb of it, the gift is still offered, we can still take it and everything can change.