Episode 23: Alienation
All of us, I suspect, have experienced broken relationships, even within our families; sometimes, we long for reconciliation. But have we ever thought of ourselves as needing to be reconciled to God? The apostle Paul is often thought of as teaching the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross was to pay the penalty for our sin, and this is true. But as he teaches in Colossians, it was also overcome our alienation from God (Col 1:21-23).
