5th Sunday of Easter - 1 Peter 2:4-7
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| Christ the Cornerstone, Pen and Ink Drawing, 2017 |
1 Peter 2:4-7
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
In this week's drawing, Christ is the cornerstone on whom the rest of the church is built. According to some interpretations, church architecture sometimes employs a variety of shapes of stone to connote the idea that the church is made up of several different types of people. According to the picture of a cornerstone, all of the other stones are laid in relation to that chief stone. In this drawing, I have sought to communicate the idea that as Christ the cornerstone, the whole church, in its myriad of difference finds its unity in Christ.
