Emmanuel and the politics of presence - BusinessWorld Online

Emmanuel and the politics of presence - BusinessWorld Online

“Happy birthday, Jesus.” Beneath this familiar Christmas greeting lies a demanding idea: God did not address humanity’s deepest failure from a distance. He did not issue instructions from afar or rely on intermediaries alone. He came near. He entered history. He took on flesh. Emmanuel, God with us, was not an abstraction, a slogan, or a policy statement. He was presence made real, authority made visible, and commitment made costly. The Gospel o…