Saturday, December 13, 2025

Nativity Meditation from SVOTS


So “sinner” is not a trap but a surrender and therefore—paradoxically—a liberation. It admits brokenness and yields power to God. It signals membership in a community that is the Body of Christ even as it is also constantly becoming the Body through healing faults, mending brokenness, and restoring the divine image.

The community comprises broken persons who know that their wholeness rests entirely in Christ and depends entirely on God.

+ Dr. Peter Bouteneff: How to Be a Sinner