"The church across the Western world could be in slumber for any number of reasons. Perhaps we are tired after our long trudge up the hill: tired after our battles with heretics, Saracens, schismatics, rationalists, postmoderns? Perhaps the soil that once nourished our faith is now exhausted, and with it, ourselves? Or just perhaps our slumber has a different source: we have learned to avert our gaze, to veil our eyes with drooping eyelids to the realities of God around us. Who wants God for no other reason than for God himself? Certainly, no one who wants an ordinary life. Far better, we think, to pretend that we’re asleep. Breathe deeply, snore a little, and maybe God will leave us alone at last? ... God cannot be bottled like a genie. But when we try, let’s ask ourselves why we are tempted to do it. Is it because a god we can manage feels so much safer than the challenge of an encounter with the living God?" -Duncan MacLaren
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:38:30 +0000
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