The Apostle Paul uses this fragrance metaphor in his letter to the church in Corinth. "Through us spreads in every place the fragrance of knowing Jesus," he writes.
This week I was having lunch with a friend and he mentioned that he longed to live his life in such a way that people noticed something different, something that pointed people to Jesus. I thought of this smelly metaphor.
Indeed, what would our lives be like if they smelled like Jesus? What if that smell was as ubiquitous as green polo in a 1984 junior high school? Awesome.
Jeremy Troxler from Duke Divinity School gives us a whiff in this blog. Check it out: The Tie that Binds. A divided world does not need a church free of conflict and sin but a church that models how conflict and sin can be transformed into peace. [read more...]
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