A New Creation

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

Rowan Williams is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012.

In his book “Christ the Heart of Creation”, he wrote: “Christ as incarnate Word does not ‘exercise an influence’ on finite agents like that of ordinary finite causal agencies, nor does he introduce extra causal factors into the finite world or simply initiate a tradition of teaching and speculation…the effect of Jesus’ life is both historical, in the sense that there comes to be a community with certain distinguishing marks, and theological, initiating a new set of human possibilities, a new creation (2 Cor. 5.17).

The theological claim is that in the movement – the ‘culture’ if you will – that has its traceable historical roots in Jesus of Nazareth a connection is made between human subjects and the divine Word.”

Jesus Christ changes lives into His image.

Praise the Lord that in His hands we can become new creatures and our lives can bring Him glory.

“I felt myself absolutely born again. The gates of paradise had been flung open and I had entered. There and then the whole of scripture took on another look to me.” – Martin Luther

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” – Galatians 2:20