NT Wright on getting the story right

Here is a quote I’m reading in my sermon this morning. It’s from the second to last chapter of N.T. Wright’s book, The Challenge of Jesus. The chapter is entitled, “Walking to Emmaus in a Postmodern World.” This chapter and the last chapter together are worth the price of the whole book!

But now, with the right story in their heads and hearts, a new possibility, huge, astonishing and breathtaking, started to emerge before them. Suppose the reason the key would not fit the lock was because they were trying to wrong door. Suppose Jesus’ execution was not the clear disproof of his messianic vocation but its confirmation and climax. Suppose the cross was not one more example of the triumph of paganism over God’s people but was actually God’s means of defeating evil once and for all. Suppose this was, after all, how the exile was designed to end, how sins were to be forgiven, how the kingdom was to come. Suppose this was what God’s light and truth looked like, coming unexpectedly to lead his people back into his presence (162).

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