If you visit Duke Chapel website and visit the sunday morning section you will fine an archive of the sermons preached sunday by sunday, many by Sam Wells, the Dean. A recent one is entitled God's story and is Wells' version of Tom Wright's suggestion that God's story is like a 5-act play. It is well worth a read. He writes (or preaches)
The third act is Jesus. This is the defintive act, at the centre of the drama, in which God reveals his character: the author enters the drama. In him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. This is played out on a personal level, of intimacy and betrayal, of challenge and confrontation. But it is also played out on a broad canvas. Jesus revisits all the key locations of Israel's story - wilderness, sea, mountain and Temple. There is the magnetism of Jerusalem, the ineveitability of the Passion, the inability of the grave to keep Jesus down. Here the drama is at is most stark. Is God totally vulnerable, or has he kept somthing back? Will his people understand him, comprehend him, follow him, or will they seek to overcome him, stand over him, obliterate and annihilate him? Will their rejection of him cause God's rejeciton of them? If he overcomes death, what will he not do?
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