Responding to the Resurrection

"The event of the resurrection, the empty tomb, and the risen Lord breaks every mold that would imprision God in the rationalism of a fallen world. But it is the starting point for a new kind of rationality, for the possibility of living hopefully in a world without hope, for the perpetual praise of God who not only creates order out of chaos but also breaks through fixed orders to create ever-new situations of surprise and joy. 

"The church's witness among nations is at heart the overflow of a gift. The boldness and the expectancy are the marks of those who have been surprised by joy and kinow that there are still surprises to come, because God is great."--Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: the Gospel and Western Culture, 150.