Gospel Blogs Part 2

Another great blog is managed by a Brazilian friend, René Breuel who is planting a new church in Rome! The blog has a huge variety of thoughtful Christian contributors who manages to engage with non-christians on different issues. If anything, the articles teach me how to talk about the Gospel with my non-believing friends.

My favourite post so far was one by René called 'Thank God we have bodies'.

Here he responds to the idea popularised by Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Eat Pray Love', that spiritual bliss should be what we should aspire to reach:
The most material of religions, as William Temple described it, considers that God created this world and called it good. He fashioned matter and delighted in it. He became a man himself, someone whose first miracle was to turn water into wine. Jesus experienced death, as every other human does, and when he rose back to life, he came not as an immaterial ghost, but as a true body, with nail marks in his hands. Heaven will not be less material still, but we will be raised up in bodily form, and there will be a new earth.

— René Breuel, Thank God we have bodies

Prayer
Our Heavenly Father, please help us to make the most of the material world you have given us. Help us to care for our own bodies, our enviroment and your Gospel as we remind people that you came to make 'everything new'. Amen

Warm Regards
Kruger