“He will not lift up his voice….” (from the pen of the prophet Isaiah)
When the Church can put aside glitz and glamor, and humbly meet the world on the terrain of shared suffering and inexhaustible love, then we will change the world for which we’ve been made.
We need more than just a strong moral code to live with that kind of humble power, but rather the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to enable the Church to love in this humanity-dignifying and others-elevating manner.
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I was just reading something exactly like that. Johann Baptist Metz in the Emergent Church (written in the ealy 80s) was talking about how the church had chosen Rigorism over the radicalism of the gospel. I loved this quote: “If the church were more ‘radical’ in the gospel sense, it would probably not need to be so ‘rigorous’ in the legal sense. Rigorism springs more from fear, radicalism from freedom, the freedom of Christ’s call.” (p.8).
Sweet thought, Frank.
Dan I think that that is so right. If we depend on our selves we are only fooling oursevles. we need Jesus to do anything for him and to have the love that he has for others. Only Jesus can save nothing eles can. once we fully get that down then all the glitz that us not needed will disapear.
hey … you are speaking in my language – now just to walk it out … oh the suffering of the doing, which comes from a deeper being.
a fellow traveler
Nice post, Dan. And, Frank, that quote is sweet indeed.
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