How Jesus disrupted the salvation economy

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What does it mean that the first thing Jesus does in Jerusalem is march into the Temple and mess up the economy of sacrifices by which the temple priests mediate the people’s forgiveness from God? What does it mean that the Savior arrives as an anti-emperor and an anti-priest?

What does it mean to be fully alive?

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Whoever we are, wherever we are on life’s journey, living into our God-given purpose does not mean suppressing or repressing the glory of our being fully alive. It means activating that fullness and directing it to the Glory of God.