Living Under the Blood

Simple statement; profound reality. So many phrases from “christianese” confront us in church, in hymns, in sermons. They were certainly full of meaning for those using them originally, and to more-or-less degrees in others since. But I believe the only way any one of us will really understand the meaning of many phrases that we hear in church is to think on them, pray on them, communicate to God about them, study to understand them.

Back in the 70s, the buzz word in some Christian circles in the U.S. was “relevance.” That meant changing language, reinterpreting symbols, learning where someone is “coming from,” trying to equate any person’s experience with a Christian’s experience in some way. What we actually got was a dumbing down of Christianity, a reinterpretation for the “secular man.”

Time to go back. Time to go back “to the cross where Thou hast died.”.