We are all alienated, all far away from each other, all striving in vain for some genuine connection, for some genuine relational intimacy. We live next to each other, but we do not know each other. And brothers and sisters, according to our text this morning, Kafka’s vision of the world is not so far off. One could say that Kafka and Paul approached the question from two different sides. Paul speaks here in Ephesians 2 about the alienation of the Gentiles. Kafka, as another Jewish author, might be talking about the alienation of the Jews. But both alike recognize that the alienation of Jews and Gentiles without Christ is profound and irremediable. Cut off from the life of God, Jew and Gentile alike wander, hopeless. Paul insists that we remember what that alienation was like, and that we remember how different it was from the newfound intimacy we have as believers. Through Christ’s work, we have been rescued from alienation, brought near to one another and to God, in an intimacy far more profound than the deepest alienation.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
