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A CORRECTIVE LOOK AT GOD--COMMUNION MEDITATION

"George Buttrick, former chaplain at Harvard, recalls that students would come into his office, plop down on a chair and declare, 'I don’t believe in God.' Buttrick would give this disarming reply: 'Sit down and tell me what kind of God you don’t believe in. I probably don’t believe in that God either.'

And then he would talk about Jesus, the corrective to all our assumptions about God.

"For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace throught his blood, shed on the cross."

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