Retelling

For those of you who might be just starting to read my blog, I have been blogging through the gospel's paying close attention to two questions, "What is the Gospel," and "What is the Kindom?" I am currently in Matt 26, were we see foreshadowing to Jesus death.

First a woman did a beautiful thing to Jesus. She took very expensive perfume and poured it on Jesus. Jesus says that was done to prepare him for burrial. (If somebody poured a bottle of perfume on a person now days, I think everyone in the room would want to be burried.) Then Jesus says everytime this gospel is preached the story of what this women did will be told as well. Interesting . . . in some of my evangelism classes in school they told us that we should be able to share the gospel in 15 seconds. As a result I never shared this story when sharing the gospel (nor really ever). Maybe we have made the gospel so short that we have lost the beauty of it and much of the significance. Thankfully our culture is getting back to valuing story, and maybe we ought to learn to retell the story of Jesus.

A second point in this chapter is during the passover, we see great foreshadowing of Jesus death. Jesus presents the wine as the bood of the covenant, and this is the first time in the gospels that we see his death a means to forgiveness of sins. Again there is great significance here. With the disicples thinking Jesus was refering to the mosaic covenat and Jesus elluding to the future covenant all in one. In this moment we can see the significance of the old testament come together in what Christ is about to do.