Between the trees

mhjones — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:15:47 +0000

Last night we watched a DVD by Rob Bell, from nooma.com. It’s part of a series of videos that creatively discuss tough questions about the Christian life. One of the ideas tackled in this video called “trees” is that God wants Christians to be involved in activities like social action and the environment. We live in a time “between the trees” – that is, between the tree in the Garden of Eden, and the tree of life that the book of Revelation (ch 22) says will be in Heaven to produce fruit and leaves that will “heal the nations.”

“We live between the trees, in a world drenched in God. And some people seriously ask, you know, ‘Where is God?’ Maybe a better question would be, ’Where isn’t God?” I mean, his fingerprints are all over our world. Or maybe it’s his world and they’re our fingerprints.” Rob Bell

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Between the trees