a question

We evangelicals pull no punches when insisting on the exclusivity of Jesus as the Way, the Truth, the Life.

The very exclusivity of this claim implies holiness, because holiness means separation from that which is common.

But it is curious that this profound truth carries with it few consequences in material terms. In fact it is no exaggeration to say that, of all of the major religions, the Protestant evangelical edition of the Christian faith might be the only one that provides no well-considered guidelines whatsoever in the way the Christian confession is lived out, is expressed, in material expressions of an art-aesthetic nature, of an architectural nature.

And yet this is the confession that stresses incarnation, God-with-us, as man, in embodied form.

If Jesus is the Way, how should the physical venues in which we live our embodied lives reflect this directionality?

If Jesus is the Truth, what practices of décor, of comportment, of the design of our physical environments, are informed by this Truth?

If Jesus is the Life, how should we then live beyond merely mental conceptions of this truth?

If Jesus is indeed the Life, shouldn’t that life spill over, fill up, even overflow, in an incarnational celebration of all that we are physically and materially?

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Matthew 5.16 Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.