What would the opposite of a "werewolf" look like? You know what I am talking about, right? Someone infected by a werewolf bite looks like a normal human being, until a certain time during the night when this human slowly and painfully turns into something else; something hideous.
What if the opposite happened. Instead of being bitten, what if the person experienced a firm but gentle touch from someone who had a "healing power"? Thus, instead of transforming into something frightening, terrifying, and ravenous, he or she turned into something glorious, bright, and beyond beautiful? What would this kind of "conversion" look like, and what would the basis of their beauty be?
This past Sunday we looked at the teaching of the Apostle Peter (in two different passages from our lectionary) regarding our conversion through the resurrection, and the vast difference it makes in our persona, spirit, and actions. It is this conversion that declares to us that the salvation of Jesus Christ matters to everyday life, and is not just some other kind of "moralistic" world religion with mystical ideas lived out by similar, but well-meaning people. There is no salvation without conversion, and no human being can conjure it up or give it to us. As the Apostle Paul clearly teaches us (and Peter specifically explains in our text on Sunday), "in Christ we are new creations; the old has gone; the new has come".
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