Becoming the action

Christ is the living framework within which every human destiny is acted out; every human destiny is judged by his perfection and saved by his redeeming meaning. By grace each of our roles on stage can be recognized as a dramatic action within the dramatic action of Christ, in which case the actor becomes ―fellow actor, a ―fellow worker with God (1 Cor. 3:15). Jesus came to give life and through His incarnational performance we are granted the freedom to live out His crazy insane love.

Our freedom in Christ is the allowance or rather, the promotion of performance. The performance within the divine drama results from the intimate interaction of faith and action.  Thus, furthering the dramatic reality of the Theo-Drama, we can look at Luke 10.25-37 whereby the fullness of the dramatic content of the Bible is once again found.  The intention of Jesus is made explicit through His command for His followers to "Go and do likewise."  It is not (as Jesus illumines) through the simple reading or hearing of the Biblical words that the inheritance of eternal life is realised, but through such words becoming action.[1]  For the teacher is answered by Jesus from this Biblical inheritance, but Jesus goes on to the command requiring active living.

Jesus did not simply speak of hearing the message ei=pen de. auvtw/| o` VIhsou/j\ poreu,ou kai. su. poi,ei o`moi,wjÅ (Jesus told him, ‘Go and do likewise.’ – Lk 10.37).  Jesus insisted –the verbs here are in the imperative (poreu,ou and poi,ei)—that His followers go and do likewise, thereby drawing upon the intimacy of one’s faith and their actions.  That their response to His words was and is manifested in performance – o[ti qe,atron evgenh,qhmen tw/| ko,smw| (spectacle unto the world – 1 Cor 4.9) is the message and expectation of the Christian faith. So the question for each of us today remains, how are we becoming the action?

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[1] The words becoming action is brought about through the fulfillment and movement of the narrative becoming the drama. Theology is dramatic (not simply narrative) and calls for the participants on the world's stage to step into the Biblical drama as it is revealed in and through the Scriptures.