Christianity's Surprise

At its beginning Christianity was surprising powerful creative world-shaking.<br> Today in the West it is many times familiar common and<br> expected losing its power to surprise and transform. We have developed<br> societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was - and<br> what it still can be. We need to recover the surprise of Christianity. We<br> need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians which<br> will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst.<br> Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of<br> what it is to understand Christianity at all and thus what it is to remember<br> and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian<br> at the beginning. This remembering and relearning can in turn surprise us<br> all over again and chart a course for our witness today.