The Theology and Practice of Covenant

The word covenant may not be immediately familiar to us but Jesus and the writers of the New Testament were all speaking and thinking and experiencing of a relation to God which is covenantal. For example: Jesus has given to us his blood of the covenant (Luke 22:20). What, then, is this covenant by which God has bound himself to us and us to himself'?

The answer to this question must involve the telling of a story-Israel's story, but with ourselves as participants in the narrative. It is only in this way that we fully understand what has happened to us and what is offered to us in the coming of Christ and his present reign.

Even though the word 'covenant' occurs few times in the NT, it is clear throughout that our present relation to God is wholly covenantal and will continue to be so in the age to come.