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The Time of God's Coming
Last Tuesday we further explored the season of Advent; the term means "coming." We are getting ready for "the time of God's coming," in the person of Jesus, I said. This led us into a remarkable discussion about time--manifestations, experiences, dimensions of time. I suggested that in the New Testament there is more than one concept of time. The first is represented by the Greek word chronos, which class members immediately distinguished as "chronological time," the long or the short of it. In the Christmas story, King Herod grills the wise men, wanting to know when they first saw the star in the sky--he is trying to determine a date to mark Jesus' birth. This kind of time is experienced in a linear way. But Class members speculated that there may also be "God-time!" Biblically, this is expressed in at least two ways: --Kairos is "the right time," the opportune time, a critical or decisive time. When Jesus began his mi...
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