My pastor calls it authenticity.
Manasclerk calls it the "Real Deal" Christian.
It is praying with your life. Christ in you. Dying to self. Fleeing Egypt.
I want to say "taking responsibility," but that's not right. It is doing the morally obvious thing and not being worried about long range outcomes that you cannot see. This is faith that can be reckoned as righteousness.
This is grace: The airman's prayer is rendered senseless. You cannot make a mistake. Abraham saw God and went straight to Egypt and denied his bride.
It's not for everybody.
It's scary as oblivion.
It also sounds like religion as the opiate of the masses. "Let's encourage the peons to be self sacrificing and unmindful of the long term so we the elite may reap the benefits of slave labor."
Posted to Church Life at December 16, 2005 3:03 PM