Words to linger over

It's Saturday, I know, and Milton doesn't usually post on the weekends, but I'm a second-stringer around here so need to try harder. I just wanted to stop by to urge you folks to have a look at Erika Haub's website blog, The Margins. Erika blog is both deeply thoughtful and also salted with wonderful little vignettes of family life. Well worth repeated visits. Recently she shared a little nugget from the writings of Miroslav Wolf:

The new birth is neither a conversion to our authentic inner self nor a migration (metoikesia) of the soul into a heavenly realm, but a translation of a person into the house of God (oikos tou theou) erected in the midst of the world.

And here's another snip from a recent post:

I think if there were one thing I would want us to remember today as we consider all things missional, it would be that as we talk about incarnational living and incarnational ministries and being incarnational wherever we live, we are talking about a way of life that leads to the cross. It did for Jesus, and if I read Philippians correctly, it should for us as well.

That's from her post entitled, Missional: To dwell and to die.