Willie Jennings says that Joy is an act of resistance against despair and its forces.
Again, it’s not living in denial, it’s not pretending things are better than they are.
The joy we speak of in the church is the knowledge that, like the crowds who gather to hear J the B, we really are a brood of vipers. Seriously, according to the witness of the Word we’re all on the naughty list. But the axe is lying at the root of the tree because God is cutting down our sin and using it for the divine bonfire the banishes the darkness forever.
