Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 9:13:03 GMT -5
Packaging, public relation, and salesmanship can never be adequate substitutes for the attractive power of a believer who is personally open to God. There is always the danger that theological and moral rectitude (orthodoxy and orthopraxy) loom so large on our religious horizon that relationship with God recedes into the background.
In this age, more than any other, we need the divine boldness to affirm that Christianity is not a matter of being good but of becoming God. It is only by the wholehearted acceptance of the truth that God’s Son fully shared our humanity that we can be emboldened to find in him our way towards an intense transforming relationship with the God who exists beyond human experience.
If we need to reframe our spiritual lives, there is no better means than returning to the Gospels to rediscover the features of Jesus of Nazareth and attempting to reproduce them in our own behavior.
Fully Human, Fully Divine
Michael Casey, OCSO
In this age, more than any other, we need the divine boldness to affirm that Christianity is not a matter of being good but of becoming God. It is only by the wholehearted acceptance of the truth that God’s Son fully shared our humanity that we can be emboldened to find in him our way towards an intense transforming relationship with the God who exists beyond human experience.
If we need to reframe our spiritual lives, there is no better means than returning to the Gospels to rediscover the features of Jesus of Nazareth and attempting to reproduce them in our own behavior.
Fully Human, Fully Divine
Michael Casey, OCSO