Saturday 6 July 2019

Beyond the obvious

We sometimes become so familiar with something, that seeing beyond what we know (or think we know) is really hard, at least until someone comes along and allows us to see things in a way that revives our relationship to what had grown 'comfortable' and therefore without the power to provoke.

One of the most familiar pool of stories to Christians are those found in the gospels - fisherman, tax collectors, beggars, soldiers, broken women and priests. We think we know them because of what's recorded, but that can sometimes leave us uncoupled from what it was really like to live in their world and, therefore, what it really meant when they encountered a man named Jesus.

The Chosen is a new look into that world. It brings these people alive in a way you won't have encountered in any other drama, and slowly, but powerfully, unveils what it would have been like to be amongst those who were first to hear the good news and to see the coming of the Kingdom amongst them.

It will certainly get you pondering!

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