“Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ.”
Attributed to Garrison Keilor
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“Give up your good Christian life and follow Christ.”
Attributed to Garrison Keilor
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Indeed.
How the Spirit would desire western believers to follow Jesus and what that might actually look like today has been lost. The hardness of the reformers, the leagalism of the post reformers, the vocal causes of the temperance unions, and the cooperatization of the church in general has brought us to what we have.
And what we have has no more power or remarkableness than a blog post. We have met the darkness and pitched a tent that resembles almost every other tent. That is why men like Shane Claiborne theology aside, has attempted to live with an arresting difference and passionately tethered to the Jesus of the gospels.
I can respect and envy that.
One line thought:
We are convinced that Jesus is the Redeemer by the things He did and said; how are people convinced that we are the redeemed.
Frankly, Rick, I think you give ‘them’ too much credit and ‘us’ not enough.
I neither respect nor envy what others do. All I can do is what I do in Him.
#2. I honestly don’t share your skepticism. I struggle to believe that today is all that different then 30 years after Jesus was born. Guys lived with him for 3 years and still fell away when the stuff hit the fan.
People are broken. Me, you, everyone. We all fall short, maybe that’s how outsiders are convinced that we are the redeemed because we can accept people in their brokenness.
Just my 1 cent
it would appear every generation thinks its setting is the worst ever.
#6. All the way back to Ecclesiastes.