The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.
The Painted Door Church - Chicago
Of Crowns and Thorns: A Sin-Filled Christ / 2 Corinthians 5:1-21
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Pastor Mark Bergin
God's Christ will not participate in our project of expunging our weakness. On the contrary, he has swallowed our weakness into himself, imbibing our sin and death such that it has become a part of him. And he now carries the wounds and sorrows of our failures into the new creation. Jesus is a basin into which all the broken horrors of this world are poured, even us. He takes us into himself as we are, making our many deaths his own. Resurrection, then, is not the shedding of death but the eruption of new life shaped by it. Jesus knows what it is to be a sinner, to bear the burden shame, the weight of guilt, and the cross of repentance.