"Faces of Faith"
"Faces of Faith"
Western Christianity has been largely in the head, although the masses never were inspired that way. Institutional Christianity is mistrustful of enthusiasm, although enthusiasm literally means “in God.” Conviction, passion, excitement changes lives much more than logic or theo-logic. If the salvation that we see in our Sunday-morning communities or congregations were the best that God could do, then we don’t have much of a God. If those bored, sad, tired faces that we priests look out at on Sunday – those who rush in late and leave early – if those are the message, then the Good News isn’t very good. Somehow it seems salvation should show in our faces, our lives; in our fire, conviction and zeal. Some kind of Pentecost is still the best way to begin, and the enthusiastic Churches will probably continue to evangelize, heal and gather commitment and resources much better than contemporary Catholicism.
from The Great Themes of Scripture
Western Christianity has been largely in the head, although the masses never were inspired that way. Institutional Christianity is mistrustful of enthusiasm, although enthusiasm literally means “in God.” Conviction, passion, excitement changes lives much more than logic or theo-logic. If the salvation that we see in our Sunday-morning communities or congregations were the best that God could do, then we don’t have much of a God. If those bored, sad, tired faces that we priests look out at on Sunday – those who rush in late and leave early – if those are the message, then the Good News isn’t very good. Somehow it seems salvation should show in our faces, our lives; in our fire, conviction and zeal. Some kind of Pentecost is still the best way to begin, and the enthusiastic Churches will probably continue to evangelize, heal and gather commitment and resources much better than contemporary Catholicism.
from The Great Themes of Scripture
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