Power Struggles

The Jesus-shaped life is like an ecotone.  An ecotone is that place between two different land masses, like a mountain pass and the prairies, or the mainland and a body of water.  These places are teeming with life and abundance, but they also attract danger and even death.  Reflecting on the story of Peter and John before the Sanhedrin, how do we live in the middle of a power struggle between the power of God and the power of this world?  And what do we do with the fact that the name of Jesus has the power to heal as well as the power to offend?